Quotes About Prejudice

Hate is hate, no matter who it's coming from.

You couldn't find a Jewish sheik?

You know what they say: All Welshmen sing. All Scots are thrifty. All Englishmen have stiff upper lips. And all Irishmen write plays.

So we learned the dance that cripples the human spirit, step by step by step, we who were white and we who were colored, day by day, hour by hour, year by year until the movements were reflexes and made for the rest of our life without thinking.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

He'd never thought he would love any woman, least of all an Anglo, but that was before this slight, delicate creature had bulldozed her way into his life and completely changed it.

Sandy laughed, and I realized that I liked her, in spite of everything. Yes, she was beautiful. Yes, Sonterra obviously thought she was hot. But that didn't mean she and I were automatic enemies, duty-bound to compete. That was not my typical approach to life and femininity, and I suspected it wasn't hers, either.

Why should the Nazis do anything to me? Just because I have a little lingerie shop in Nice and my name is Gustav Kohn? What interest can Hitler possibly have in me? Don't you think I ought to stay?

I thought of my Levantine later on when the Vichy government proclaimed laws against Jews that were modelled on those of Nürnberg.

There is nothing the rabble fears more than intelligence. If they understood what is truly terrifying, they would fear ignorance.

Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

Lani might be a screw-up with horrible taste in men, but she was still a mom. Why people assumed those things couldn't go together, I'll never know.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.