Quotes About Prejudice

In Italy, everyone is talking about the referee for three days before the game - 'We don't like him. He is no good.'

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

I'm very often referred to as 'Sir' in elevators and such. I think it has to do with being this tall and not wearing much lipstick. I think people just can't imagine I'd be a woman if I look like this.

In my school days, everyone thought I'm too tall for a Chinese girl.

I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers.

I'd hate to be the sort of player who people just regard as being tall and only good for winning headers.

There are some people saying I'm a tweener - not tall enough for a power forward and not fast enough for a three. But I feel like if I go out there and play hard, it will eliminate all that.

I know I can play, but people who haven't seen me and look at me on a football pitch think, 'He's tall, and he's there to head the ball.'

I've always felt comfortable on the ball, and I don't know why people are so surprised when you can control it well. It's not a disability. It's just that I'm a bit taller than everyone else.

Run for the door if a guy has too much gel in his hair and is too tan and it's not even summer.

I think we're all guilty of judging, and I look a certain way - I wear a lot of make-up and fake tan.

When I was up for the film 'Dreamcatcher,' to play the role of an overweight kid, I was told I'm too fat to play the fat guy. That's like telling a Mexican to get a tan.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Every time stupid rich people get ripped off, it makes them feel better about hating poor people.

Public washrooms and water fountains were rigidly demarcated to prevent contaminating contact with the same people who cooked the white South's meals, cleaned its houses, and tended its children.

The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

Everyone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed or down-right prejudiced. Yet the quality of our life and that of what we produce, make, or build depends precisely on the quality of our thought. Shoddy thinking is costly, both in money and in quality of life. Excellence in thought, however, must be systematically cultivated.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

I don't believe society has ever grown more tolerant. It just changes targets.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

That which you don't understand, you fear. That which you fear, you hate.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!