Quotes About Prejudice

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

People were so cruel because of the way I existed.

My color's not a crutch. See, funny crosses a lot of color barriers.

In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police.

In certain cultures, they'll eat an eyeball. I'm never gonna be that guy.

As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan.

The thing about spending a lifetime under a long, bushy cloud of curls is that people naturally began associating me with my hair.

A lot of people think of me only as a cute, sexy blonde.

Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.

Because of how I walk and I talk, I get abuse on a daily basis.

It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it.

Republicans don't give a damn about anti-Semitism. They just don't care.

I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys' table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that's automatic; it's not prejudice.

I remember when I was 13 and telling people I wanted to be an actor, and being met with, 'Have fun waiting tables,' so I figured maybe that's not such a great idea after all.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.

When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

Very much like a disease, we have to tackle the cause of racism, not the symptoms.

We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.

Creating a more equal society means tackling the inequalities that emerge before children even start school.