Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

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

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

This self imposed guilt about racial and ethnic profiling is idiocy.

Colored people are quite ignorant, mostly uneducated and I doubt that they would seek an education if they had an opportunity.

When you're a black man in a hoodie, all of a sudden you're a criminal. That's something we shouldn't have to deal with, but we do. It's a double standard. We can't cover our head when it's cold and raining because God forbid someone sees us and puts our life in danger.

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

There are so many double standards, not just in rap, but everywhere.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

Some of the most destructive forms of racism - like being denied a home loan or being passed on for a job where you are the most qualified candidate - are hard to measure in real time.

When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.

I'm discriminated against all the time.

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.