Wentworth Miller Quotes

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.

Racial profiling has to stop.

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.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

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

To assume that just because of someone's age or gender or whatever, that they don't pose a threat would be wrong.

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.

It is still difficult being a black cyclist. There are people who say bad things to you that they won't to a white person. It is stupid that that is the case, but your skin colour is there, and some people judge you on that.

When you're walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community, there's no differentiating on - solely on the basis of what you look like. They don't walk down the street saying, hi, I'm an immigrant; I'm here legally or not.

The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

I'm discriminated against all the time.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

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

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination is a disease.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

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

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

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