David Lammy Quotes

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

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

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Discrimination is not just an ugly stain from this nation’s past. It’s still the reality of the present.

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

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

I saw the discrimination that was happening towards Middle Easterners, Muslims and other brown people who had nothing to do with 9/11. It suddenly felt like a duty of mine to talk about some of the crazy things that were going on and make fun of how stupid it was.

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

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.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

The world is still very bigoted.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

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

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

I think any stereotyping is too much.