Quotes About Prejudice

I hate the English--they are coarse, like every nation that swills beer.

My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.

On vous pardonne, Renée, dit la marquise avec un sourire de tendresse qu'on était étonné de voir fleurir sur cette sèche figure ; mais le cÅ"ur de la femme est ainsi fait, que si aride qu'il devienne au souffle des préjugés et aux exigences de l'étiquette, il y a toujours un coin fertile et riant : c'est celui que Dieu a consacré à l'amour maternel

But the heart of a woman is such that, however arid it may become when the winds of prejudice and the demands of etiquette have blown across it, there always remains one corner that is radiant and fertile -the one that God has dedicated to maternal love.

Sólo hace dos meses que la conozco ––replicó el conde. ––Y el señor sólo hace cinco minutos que me conoce. No dic e usted más que tonterías. Las mujeres son despiadadas con las personas que no son de su agrado.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he is become their equal;

In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness.

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

The moderns, then, after they have abolished slavery, have three prejudices to contend against, which are less easy to attack and far less easy to conquer than the mere fact of servitude: the prejudice of the master, the prejudice of the race, and the prejudice of color.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.

The flamboyant diva in eye-catching costume was Queenie in drag. We have never been able to persuade him to undergo a transsex transformation. He says he prefers remaining a faggot.

Hay otra cosa que aprendes cuando recorres el mundo. Existe una distinción de clases en todas las cosas. La gente ama a los de su propia clase y odia a los de su propia clase. Los chacales odian a los chacales, no se atreverían a odiar a un león»

Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, It's not like I hate gay people.

She's not a demon, she's a woman. In this case, that's worse.

In their estimation Gillian was young and stupid and would get herself pregnant in record time—all the prerequisites for a miserable and ordinary life.

It was easier not to face judgment, especially from your own kind.

Her mother warned that being different could cause grief, for men often destroyed what they didn't understand.

Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off?

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman?

We'll, you know how nigger is. Can't nobody tell 'em nothing even today. Can't be rule. Every nigger you see got a kingdom in his head.

That she had seen the magazines we receive from home and that it was very clear to her that black people did not truly admire blackskinned black people like herself, and especially did not admire blackskinned black women. They bleach their faces, she said. They fry their hair. They try to look naked.