Quotes About Prejudice

C'est notre regard qui enferme souvent les autres dans leurs plus étroites appartenances, et c'est notre regard aussi qui peut les libérer.

Quand on ne peut plus exercer ses prérogatives de citoyen sans se référer à ses appartenances ethniques ou religieuses, c'est que la nation entière s'est engagée sur la voie de la barbarie.

On ne leur reprochait pas leurs opinions, leurs propos, ni leurs actes, on leur reprochait leurs origines, qu'ils n'avaient pas choisies et qu'ils ne pouvaient pas modifier.

TEXAN: "Where are you from?" HARVARD STUDENT: "I am from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions." TEXAN: "OK, where are you from, jackass?" —Variation on an old joke

But I don't know these Muslim people. They seem ... what if she brings a bomb inside the house? What if she blows up my house like all those suicide bombers in Israel?" he demanded.

She said she remembered when Republicans compared President Roosevelt to Hitler and to Stalin and to Mussolini. She said she used to see people wearing I HATE ELEANOR buttons walk past her on the sidewalk and she wanted to spit, she wanted to kill them.

You wouldn't shut up about how brain-damaged that 'little Rusky diva-bitch' was and how he needed to just 'get over his sorry self and give our poor cop a blow job and live happily ever after'—you remember that?

The point is, they have a public thing against the overweight and the underbeautiful. Those are my people there, Jared. Those are the people who pull the curtain and write the plays and make the costumes—those are the people who make the dream but who don't live it on the front of the stage. Anyone who knocks those people is not going to get my business. Or yours, because you're better than that.

What? The world needs one less Jew?

many of the "bad guys" were simply lost, addicted, and hungry. He had learned that many of the "good guys" were bullies, excited about using their power simply because they could.

I may be a faggot," he said clearly, "but at least I'm not a moron, an asshole, or a rednecked motherfucker.

Witnesses like me are invisible to police anyway. Just another fat brown woman with too many dogs. They didn't want my opinion.

You have to discard your own stereotypes. Remember, there's no such thing as normal.

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.

When American parents of Italian or Polish or Kenyan background tell their children to "stop acting like wild Indians," they are not intending to promote bigotry, but they are promoting it nonetheless. And when parents in rural areas of the Philippines tell their children to "stop acting like Jews," anti-Judaism is the unintended result. Disease cannot be cured when those infected are in denial.

to Jesus's Jewish audience as well as to Luke's readers, the idea of a "good Samaritan" would make no more sense than the idea of a "good rapist" or a "good murderer.

anti-Jewish material is repeated, because no one questions it.

You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country. For some reason looking Mexican means you can't be American.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and his pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

keep this one thing at the front of your mind: subjective judgments are inherently vulnerable to all sorts of biases.

People judge what they do not understand

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Homophobes are the bitch of living.

You get born as a boy and then you just end up messing everything just to be a girl. In the end, nobody supports you and you die as a miserable no one. End of story."