Quotes About Prejudice

Because we don't need some skinny-ass white lady trying to save her soul by slumming it in the ghetto. Come on, have you looked in a mirror? This ain't your neighborhood." She delivers this with the kind of disdain only a teenager can muster.

the reverse-discrimination case

I know that you guys decide who you 'like' and who you don't, then confirmation bias sets in and before you know it, the wrong person has been suspected of murder, even charged.

There have always been anti-Semites, as there have always been fleas. Both are insignificant and brainless, having no purpose other than to torment their betters. I pray that someday we will be rid of them, but until then, we can only bathe. to keep them away.

We have more patience for girls who act like boys than boys who act like girls. A tomboy is considered cute. One day she'll shuck her muddy jeans and put on a dress, and everyone will gasp at her beauty. They'll all laugh about her tree-climbing, frog-catching days. But there's no such tolerance for the boy who puts on a dress, who wants a toy kitchen or a baby doll to love.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one.

and I want you all to remember—that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of—something he can work and fight for.

Presumably the car at the gate was Matt, the man who would work over Priss, head to toes. Even from a distance, Matt looked flamboyant with bleached-blond hair, dark shades and a purple convertible. It was unreasonable and it made little sense, but because he'd be working on Priss, Trace disliked him on sight.

MAMA: You must not dislike people 'cause they well off, honey. BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people 'cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people. I though everybody knew that.

TSHEMBE You thought! You thought because I am a black man I have answers that are deep and pure. I do not!!

That I might never have an occasion to wear such a thing or that I might look like the worst sort of Republican doing so probably never occurred to her.

He had never been involved with the mentally ill before, but he now felt more than ever that there should be strong international laws against them being too good-looking.

After all, it's pretty hard to be prejudiced against blacks and gays when you're a-okay with Klingons and the Green Men of Mars.

Zaten eninde sonunda her insan?n ba??na gelir bu, sizi s?n?fland?r?rlar.

Neely grumbled. 'They [Indians] are a murdering lot of savages, and no mention of them in the Bible.' 'What has that to do with it?' John Sampson asked. 'If there's no mention of them,' Neely said, 'they are animals, not men.' 'I don't recall any mention of the English, either,' I said mildly. He gave me a mean look, then changed the subject.

No telling what those men wanted... but in these times there were white men with bloodier hands than any Indian...

who might have ventured into the Strip were usually warned in time and rode away to more tolerant

Read the Bible. There'd been whites held as slaves for several thousand years before the blacks were enslaved.

Sam wasn't allowed to attend classes because he was a Negro

I used to think you were a good-for-nothing book reader.

I suppose there won't be any Mexican food in the whites-only homeland,' I said. Hm, I'd never thought of that possibility' Jerry said. He paused. 'They wouldn't be allowed to vote but they could cook and clean for us. Afterall, we're not extremists.