Quotes About Prejudice

White folks is a miracle of affliction, say Sofia.

Leute mit Krawatten an sehn aus, wie wenn sie gelyncht werden.

Ain't no way to read the bible and not think God white, she say. Then she sigh. When I found out I thought God was white, and a man, I lost interest. You mad cause he don't seem to listen to your prayers. Humph! Do the mayor listen to anything colored say? Ask Sofia, she say. But I don't have to ast Sofia. I know white people never listen to colored, period. If they do, they only listen long enough to be able. to tell you what to do.

Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them.

I thought black people superior people. Not simply superior to white people, because even without thinking about it much, I assumed almost everyone was superior to them; but to everyone. Only white people, after all, would blow up a Sunday school class and grin for television over their victory, i.e. , the death of four small black girls.

When I found out I thought God was white, and a man, I lost interest.

Because I know. Grown-up white men don't want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute.

Why can't Tashi come to school? she asked me. When I told her the Olinka don't believe in educating girls she said, quick as a flash, They're like white people at home who don't want colored people to learn.

Shug say, Wellsah, and I thought it was only whitefolks do freakish things like that.

They were assumed, like women and cats, to have no souls.

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

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

we did not vilify all white men when mcveigh bombed oklahoma. america did not give out his family's addresses or where he went to church. or blame the bible or pat robertson.

and when we talk about holy books and hooded men and death, why do we never mention the kkk?

movie Twelve Angry Men.

The demonizing and devaluing of certain segments of the population during the last two decades of the nineteenth century would grow in both support and legitimacy.

the so-called Waidhofen Manifesto of the mid-1880s barring Jews from membership in student organizations and fraternities. He quotes these lines from that document, and they are explicit: "Everyone of a Jewish mother, every human being in whose veins flows Jewish blood, is from the day of his birth without honor and void of all the refined emotions.… He is ethically subhuman.

There are some men who will always prefer to deal with another man, any man, rather than a woman ... I can see him struggling to place me: I'm not married to him, clearly I'm not his mother, I didn't go to school with his sister and I'm sure as hell not going to go to bed with him. So what, he must be asking himself as he chews on his pigeon, is this girl doing here? What is she for?

People often hate what they cannot understand.

Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

I was what some foolish persons are pleased to call, and others, more foolish, are pleased to be called - an aristocrat.

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