Jennifer Grey Quotes

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

Demonization of people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other criteria leads to dehumanization. The notion that some are 'other' is a dangerous and slippery slope.

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

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

Profiling any segment of society and viewing them as a threat is a sign of intolerance.

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

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.

The world is still very bigoted.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail…unlike is normally situated at a safe distance.

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

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.