Quotes About Prejudice

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.

Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.

Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you.

Just because something is English does not necessarily mean it is good. We make the best cheddar; we make great pasties. But we can't make very good brie or baguettes - and the French can't make pork pies.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.

Society doesn't portray transsexual people in a very positive light.

All wrongfully convicted people are portrayed as monsters. But there's a special kind of monster that is a woman.

People perceive actresses in a different manner when they are portrayed glamorously. I don't want that to happen with me.

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going to carry some of that way of thinking with you.

The Muslim world is portrayed as a monolith that is consistently scary and negative, and as much as you can be an open-minded person, if the only diet of information you get is scary images of men in beards, that starts to play on you. But you come to find out that the Muslim world is not a monolith.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

If I keep doing films like 'The Riot Club' they're going to think I'm a posh git.

I do want people to think of me as an actor, not just a posh actor who does posh parts.

The first time I ever met posh people was when I went to Manchester University to study drama, but I couldn't care less about people's backgrounds - it's all down to the individual.