Quotes About Prejudice

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

I was reading Punch or The London Charivari, an English magazine of art and comedy. The pictures showed many kinds of people. The ugliest and most comical ae Scots, Irish, foreign, poor, servants, rich folk who have been poor until very recently, small men, old unmarried women and Socialists. The Socialists are the ugliest, very dirty and hairy with weak chins, and seem to spend their time grumbling to other people at street corners.

Our system of class prejudice is the cleverest piece of self-frustrating daftness since the Tower of Babel, it benefits nobody but a few at the top. We fool ourselves into fooling others into fooling ourselves even more.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Il est plus facile de désintégrer un atome qu'un préjugé

Racism is a disease of white people

Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.

There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.

Es wird nicht möglich sein, die kriegerischen Instinkte in einer einzigen Generation auszurotten. Es wäre nicht einmal wünschenswert, sie gänzlich auszurotten. Die Menschen müssen weiterhin kämpfen, aber nur, wofür zu kämpfen lohnt: und das sind nicht imaginäre Grenzen, Rassenvorurteile oder Bereicherungsgelüste, die sich die Fahne des Patriotismus umhängen. Unsere Waffen seien Waffen des Geistes, nicht Panzer und Geschosse.