Quotes About Prejudice

You had to know Putzi to really dislike him. That

I was inclined to think him Jewish," she wrote; she "considered his animus to be prompted only by his racial self-consciousness.

Hardly anyone thought that the threats against the Jews were meant seriously," wrote Carl Zuckmayer, a Jewish writer. "Even many Jews considered the savage anti-Semitic rantings of the Nazis merely a propaganda device, a line the Nazis would drop as soon as they won governmental power and were entrusted with public responsibilities.

I have examined the laws of the United States carefully and I do not find any law which says that a white man shall be punished for killing a Chinaman.

Having seen it," Rudyard Kipling wrote, "I desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Another raid followed on January 31, during which nine airships flew as far as Liverpool, along the way sending terrifying shadows scudding across the landscape of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.

Remember not all Germans were Nazis.

That's exactly what we all are. We spend so much time trying to figure out what race a person is when we could just get to know them as individuals. I felt like answering their question with a question. Does it matter? Will it make a difference if she is Croatian, Muslim, Serbian?

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them

But are there not many fascists in your country? There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.

He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook. What was this? A catalogue of old books? What was his talent anyway? It was a talent all right but instead of using it, he had traded on it. It was never what he had done, but always what he could do.

I'm fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I was a faggot. That was what the Civil War was about. Abraham Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with General Grant. So was Jefferson Davis. Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet.

If you have plenty of money, want not to see but to have seen a bullfight and plan no matter whether you like it or not to leave after the first bull, buy a barrera seat so that someone who has never had enough money to sit in a barrera can make a quick rush from above and occupy your expensive seat as you go out taking your pre-conceived opinions with you.

Half a million dead wops And he got a kick out of it The son of a bitch.

Listen. You're a hell of a good guy, and I'm fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I was a faggot. That was what the Civil War was about. Abraham Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with General Grant. So was Jefferson Davis. Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet. The Dred Scott case was framed by the Anti-Saloon League. Sex explains it all. The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady are Lesbians under their skin. (101)

But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.

But I fear the Indians of Cleveland.

Don Guillermo's house was no house, since he had not much money and was only a fascist to be a snob and to console himself that he must work for little

I gave Brett what for, you know. I said if she would go about with Jews and bull-fighters and such people, she must expect trouble.

The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady are Lesbians under their skin.

No me gustan los perros por ser perros, los caballos por ser caballos ni los gatos por ser gatos.

What are you called? Georgette. How are you called? Jacob. That's a Flemish name. American too. You're not Flamand? No, American. Good, I detest Flamands.

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