Quotes About Prejudice

You see, there is a list, written by the hand of the Almighty in a celestial book, which details the rich and wonderful accomplishments his subjects might achieve here on earth: father of philosophy, composer of the finest music, ace pilot of the skies, paramour to lucky women. Now I knew: beside the name Gilbert Joseph was written just one word -- driver. All endeavours to erase, replace or embellish were useless.

To be honest, she may be kind of scared of the register. Or maybe she can't add. She is a Christian. I don't think they believe in math.

Jesus. I do not wanna be called a vampire n-word.

Voor een vrouw is-geen-plaats-in-de-wereld,-maar-in-de-keuken,-in-bed-en-in-de-kerk. Er-zijn-geen-vrouwelijke-genieën,-creatieve-kunst-vernieuwers-maatschappijhervormers,-die-ten-voorbeeld-kunnen-strekken. Als-een-vrouw-iets-presteert,-vraagt-men-zich-af-waarom-zij-geen-man-heeft,-of-haar-tijd-niet-aan-hem-wijdt.

He's got a bad case of something I call ethnic PMS. I think it sounds nicer than 'bloodlust.

bonus." The subject is anti-Americanism for its own sake, where resorting to general assumptions about the United States contributes nothing, either descriptively or analytically, to understanding the topic at hand, but instead chiefly serves the purpose of confirming and mobilizing preexisting prejudices.

Two thoughts went through my head as I read this: First, that Perlentaucher would never have added a remark like this about any other country on Earth: not North Korea, nor Saudi Arabia, Germany, nor even Israel,

The label "from the American" has, of course, very little to do with being precise about accent, vocabulary, writing style, orthography, geography, or citizenship. It simply has to do with the ascription of a cultural inferiority.

cannot recall a single one of my numerous stays in German-speaking Europe in which I was not at some time confronted with the lovely statement, "The Americans don't even speak proper English.

In the two mentioned here, Moore addresses two standard elements of traditional European anti-Americanism: first, the amicableness of Americans that always strikes Europeans as phony, superficial, and inauthentic; and second, Americans' purported stupidity and simple-mindedness.11

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

but the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal opportunity misanthropist.

It's not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom of the Opera, on Freddie Krueger from Elm Street, or on Leatherface from deep in the heart of Texas. Sure, a burn victim may "get the girl" - but usually only with a pickax.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

A deep strain of anti-Semitism ran through the teachings and sermons of many fundamentalist leaders such as Ham and William Bell Riley.

M. E. Dodd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, expressed his belief that Hitler's moves against German Jews were unfortunately necessary because they had used their strengths "for self-aggrandizement to the injury of the German people," and he charged that "since the war some 200,000 Jews from Russia and other Eastern places had come to Germany. Most of these were Communist agitators against the government.

Will Rice saw the Ku Klux Klan as an heroic embodiment of the Old South, as protectors of Christian beliefs and defenders of white womanhood, as soldiers who wielded a holy sword in service to the Lost Cause.

According to John R. Rice, the not guilty verdict was perfectly understandable. Responsibility for Till's murder lay with the NAACP and other "race agitators," and not with the white men who in fact killed him.

Accordingly, the test of "loving your neighbor" is showing compassion for someone you might naturally be inclined to hate or fear or despise—not someone who is your natural ally or blood kin or fellow citizen.

I am ashamed to admit that I believed black people smelled bad and had low moral standards and that good Christian white people only associated with a few "good" colored people—despite the fact that I knew no Negroes firsthand. Isn't that remarkable? Where in the world did I get those strange ideas?

In the climate of fear whipped up by fundamentalist preachers and Southern politicians, the Klan rapidly spread after 1918 from Georgia to other states North and South, including Texas, four states to the west.

First, if Rice had preached to his all-white Texas audience in 1930 against racial injustice or oppression he would have been castigated as a modernist, a radical socialist, or a social gospel do-gooder, and lost all his influence in the fundamentalist movement, most or all of his friends, and maybe even his life.

Truly Christ blessed the lepers and the whores, but there is no comfort in the Bible for boys with small winks, and they are the most shunned of all.

And the story of a boy's love for a boy will never capture the world's heart as the story of a boy's love for a girl.