Quotes About Prejudice

If someone chooses a vocational route, why do they not get the same respect in society as someone who just does a pure academic route?

I've done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I've been asked to 'be blacker.' That's code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck rolls and snaps.

I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know.

I believe that Trayvon Martin's life might well have been spared if many of us who care about racial justice had raised our voices much, much sooner and much, much more loudly about the routine stereotyping and profiling of young black men and boys.

I am one of the few composers who has been lucky enough to manage to do songs with female singers, despite the labels and producers wanting otherwise. They don't believe that songs with female voices can work and often push us to work with male singers.

There will always be people who think volleyball, at least for boys anyway, is a sport you play when you can't letter in anything else.

In many parts of this country, there is still a stigma about volleyball, that it is a sissy game, the one to go out for if you can't win a letter in anything else. People don't realize what a difference there is between the picnic game and the top level.

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien.

I met someone with a title on my first day, Baronet von Something, and I thought: 'Look at me, I've really grafted. Who are these people who have just waltzed into Oxford? I don't want to hang out with those people. They're nothing like me.'

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.

If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.

Every racist that I know - and I know a lot of racists - every racist that I know voted for Donald Trump.

There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.

Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.

I was always a little skeptical of how voters would react to my name.

Theresa May, a Remainer, assumed that all of the Brexit voters are racist, thinks we will use this to kick British citizens out of the country; it is despicable.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

Hate sells.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.

We are all Ahmaud Arbery. Everyday activities should not end in death sentences. We must hold people responsible for their actions.