Quotes About Prejudice

Car là encore ces hommes se livraient à quelque chose de grotesque lorsqu'ils embêtaient leur famille pour qu'elle leur achète un costume tout neuf pour leur procès. Les tribunaux ne prenaient jamais en considération la tenue des inculpés. Ils auraient pu comparaître dans des sacs à pommes de terre, les juges n'en avaient rien à faire. La seule chose qui comptait était la couleur de leur peau et les chefs d'accusation.

There's nothing more frightening to me than a character who thinks he knows what a real American is – mainly because it generally turns out he's convinced it's somebody like him. It seems an odd notion to me. I certainly don't want to live in a country populated with people just like me, God forbid! Anyway, I figure there's room for a little variety in a nation as big as ours.

the first move to a more tolerant Australia must come from controlling the aversion to Muslims that is at present the principal xenophobia in this country.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

Me can't be prejudice. Me can't me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you can't be righteous.

When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.

I've killed lots of Arabs in my life - and there's no problem with that.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

My life's mission is to unmask the Jews.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

One of the great pleasures of my life is making comments like this, because having a gay son is my bigoted prick of a father's worst nightmare.

But what about the Jews? If even people of our own country did not try to help us when we were put into the ghetto, why would these foreigners want to save us? It is very lonely being Jewish, I think. And confusing.

I don't want a Nazi to notice me and think, Jew. Because then I might die, too.

other children's stories were certainly unabashedly racist, too. Among the worst were the popular if unfortunately named series of Dumpy Books for Children, whose titles include the notorious Story of Little Black Sambo

Everyone's different from how they look on the outside