Evelyn Glennie Quotes

Labels are actually not to make us understand things better: they are actually to ostracise and discriminate that what does not belong to the majority.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

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

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

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

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination is a disease.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

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

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

All labels are offensive in some way.

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

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Racial discrimination is wrong and racial preference is just as wrong.

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

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'