Quotes About Discrimination

When 'Frozen River' started to get really big, I was four months pregnant. So when these agents and directors wanted to meet me, I was coming in pregnant, and people didn't really take me seriously. They thought, 'This woman is not going to shoot another movie again. She's going to become a mom, and that's what happens.' But that was not the case.

I don't think many women would disagree that it's a good thing that under E.U. law a British woman who becomes pregnant while working in Europe can't be discriminated against.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

I think that there's still a lot of prejudice going on. I don't really think it's only an issue of football. I think football is a mirror of society.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, they're all rooted in the same prejudice: the belief that one perception at birth - the sex we are assigned - should dictate who we are, who we love, how we act, and what we do.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

Categorizing people economically and hating them because you think they're this way is a prejudice.

The fundamental thing that makes the 'X-Men' different from every other series out there is it's all about prejudice. It's about a group of young people trying to make a place in a society that doesn't want them.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.