Quotes About Prejudice

You've never known what it is to live in the diaspora, in a country like Poland where you're hated for one crime—being a Jew.

What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.

They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but it's not true. The cover is all you get. But it is true that appearances can be deceptive, surely. Only if you let yourself be influenced by what other people think. If you trust your own feelings, you can judge anybody by the way they look and never go wrong.

and I began to wonder if we were moral beings at all or simply savages who defined their private bigotries as necessary ethics, as the only ways to be.

Nathuram Godse. "Thank God," Amina burst out, "it's not a Muslim name!

Enough of invisibility, silence, timidity, defensiveness, guilt! An invisible, silenced man was an empty space into which others could pour their prejudices, their agendas, their wrath. The fight against fanaticism needed visible faces, audible voices. He would be quiet no longer. He would try to become a loud and visible man.

Vow," he cried, reeling. "It isn't bad enough being a brown dude in America, you're telling me I'm half fucking goblin as well.

Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word. [ 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times , December 12, 1991)]

We can't deny the ubiquity of faith. If we write in such a way as to prejudge such belief as in some way deluded or false, then are we not guilty of elitism, of imposing our world-view on the masses?

Prejudice, mostly,' Allie said, lying curled around Gibreel beneath parachute silk. 'They can't quantify the will, so they leave it out of their calculations. But it's will that gets you up Everest, will and anger, and it can bend any law of nature you care to mention, at least in the short term, gravity not excluded. If you don't push your luck, anyway.

He was teaching them to hate, wife. He tells them to hate Hindus and Buddhists and Jains and Sikhs and who knows what other vegetarians. Will you have hateful children, woman?

The fact that millions of people use the term morality as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.

atheists are the most reviled minority in the United States. Polls indicate that being an atheist is a perfect impediment to running for high office in our country (while being black, Muslim, or homosexual is not).

invidious comparisons of this kind is to stand convicted of bigotry.

I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand!

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

I think they are rising faster than they have any business, and that they would not be so black if they did not mean mischief.

ma il cuore della donna è così fatto, che per quanto diventi arido al soffio dei pregiudizi o alle esigenze dell'etichetta, mantiene sempre un angolo fertile e ridente: quello che Dio ha consacrato all'amore materno.