Quotes About Prejudice

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

From a girl's point of view, the guy always chooses the slut. From a guy's point of view, the girl always chooses the jerk.

You can't be yourself in this world without being labeled.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Sometimes we are hated for the color of our skin or our beliefs, people will see you and judge you before they even get to know you, be proud of who you are and where you came from, you are special and dont let anyone tell you or make you feel otherwise.

A slut is like the first piece of bread in a loaf, everyone touches it, but nobody wants it.

No good Indian but a dead Indian

Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin¦ Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because ¦ of the color of your skin.

The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.

Girls work on their looks but not on their minds because they know boys are stupid, not blind.

There are more men than women in mental hospitals...which just goes to show who's driving whom crazy.

Everyone says that looks don't matter, age doesn't matter, money doesn't matter. But I never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who's broke.

I don't know, he seems kind of hairy and slobbery to me.

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Boys think girls are like books. If the cover doesn't catch their eye, they won't bother to read what's inside.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.