Quotes About Prejudice

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.

I did not want people to know that I was a Muslim; I did not want people to know my name or that I did not have an American name. I did not want that. Because I knew if they knew that, they would cast me as the bad guy.

Well, in the '80s and '70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and black as I am, you were a bad guy. Simple. Because in real life, I scare people.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

I worry about global anti-Semitism - not just as a bad idea that originates from bad people, but also as something that arises as a challenge to global order.

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

If 10 out of 10 news articles about Jordi Alba are negative, it's normal that people think badly.

People don't take badminton seriously. When I played, people never took me seriously.

When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.

I've never particularly liked bankers.

I hate barbecues in the U.K., they're always put together by people who don't cook.

Being Australian is a lot more than saying 'g'day mate' and 'throw a shrimp on the Barbie.'

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

I have to battle so many issues, and the biggest is racism.

You're not going to beat the meanness out of a mean dog. You start beating a mean dog, it's gonna become more mean. You start beating racists, they're gonna become more racist.

I know, everybody thinks that all Aussies love beer. I guess most of them do, but not me.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

Racist behaviour must be stigmatised so that it can be no more.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

As a black, you find you have to be two or three times better than a white even to play. And when it comes to front-office jobs, management believes you'll never be as good.

For me racism doesn't belong to football and it doesn't belong in our society any more.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep.