Quotes About Prejudice

there's a simpler reason that white collars hate white trash—rednecks were the ones who beat them up in high school. That's usually the only time white-collar white liberals were forced to mingle with white trash. High school was probably the most egalitarian social experiment they were ever required to make, and they haven't stopped running from it yet.

Stupid f***ing white man.

You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

As Martin Luther King Jr. said in his "I Have a Dream" speech, whose fiftieth anniversary has now passed, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."1 King's dream failed that night in Florida when Zimmerman decided to follow Martin because of the color of his skin.

Prejudice may indeed be a universal human sin that all races can exhibit, but racism is more than an inevitable consequence of human nature or social accident. Rather, racism is a system of oppression for social and economic purposes. As many analysts have suggested, racism is prejudice plus power.

the heart of the difference is that many white Americans tend to see unfortunate incidents based on individual circumstances, while most black Americans see systems in which their black lives matter less than white lives.

The white pastors who opposed the civil rights movement, and even those who ignored it, were indeed disobeying Paul's theological proclamation that, in Christ, there is no Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female; but all are one in Christ Jesus.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Hatred stems from pride because vanity makes us detest and have contempt for anything or anyone who detracts from our importance.

We only hate what we don't understand.

But imagine how he'd feel if you said that to him. It's not considering him as a person but as part of a class of inferior things.

1 tatty old man in jeans—what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people.

Seguramente não é essa massa rude, de iletrados, enfermiços, encarquilhados, impaludados, mestiços e negros. A isso não se pode chamar um povo, não era isso o que mostraríamos a um estrangeiro como exemplo do nosso povo.

Mas, no que depender de mim, e tenho certeza de que dos senhores também, o Brasil jamais se tornará um país de negros, pardos e bugres, não se transformará num valhacouto de inferiores, desprezível e desprezado pelas verdadeiras civilizações.

Sonia Sotomayor's] opinion echoed with her personal story: 'Race matters because of the slights, the snickers, the silent judgments that reinforce that most crippling of thoughts: 'I do not belong here.

Sonia Sotomayor] believed that the fact that she was a woman, a single woman, played a role in the queries. 'There were private questions I was offended by. I was convinced they were not asking those questions of the male applicants...I wondered if they ever asked those questions of the male candidates. But the society has a double standard.

Men who are prejudiced against women in executive positions have usually had a bad experience with one who swaggered in with a chip on her manly shoulder believing that she had to fight her way up, and fight men to do it. A gal like that can make it tough for the rest of us. Many in the women's liberation movement have done that—but few of them are executives and few are very good to look at. They have nothing to lose but their uncombed hair.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

A person who hates a Jew, will hate a black, will hate a Moslem, will hate a Mexican, will hate an Asian, will hate a….whatever. People who hate, hate. It's not about the object of the hatred. It's about justifying an unjustifiable attitude.

Still, the mythology persists in SF, as elsewhere, that women are naturally gentler than men, that they are naturally less creative than men, or less intelligent, or shrewder, or more cowardly, or more dependent, or more self-centered, or more self-sacrificing, or more materialistic, or shyer, or God knows what, whatever is most convenient at the moment.

I've never slept with a girl. I couldn't. I wouldn't want to. That's abnormal and I'm not, although you can't be normal unless you do what you want and you can't be normal unless you love men. To do what I wanted would be normal, unless what I wanted was abnormal, in which case it would be abnormal to please myself and normal to do what I didn't want to do, which isn't normal.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.