Quotes About Prejudice

Thomas eyed the array of hair products on the corner of the tub and snorted. "God, I forget sometimes how gay you are.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay.

It took me a while to see that the contrast between the racism directed at Billie and the compassion offered to addicted white stars like Judy Garland was not some weird misfiring of the drug war—it was part of the point.

It was more comforting to believe that a white powder was the cause of black anger, and that getting rid of the white powder would render black Americans docile and on their knees once again.

At first, ordinary citizens had taken matters into their own hands against this Yellow Peril. In Los Angeles, twenty-one Chinese people were shot,197 hanged, or burned alive by white mobs, while in San Francisco, officials tried to forcibly move everyone in Chinatown into an area reserved for pig farms and other businesses that were designated as dirty and disease-ridden, until the courts ruled the policy was unconstitutional.198

The main reason given for banning drugs—the reason obsessing the men who launched this war—was that the blacks, Mexicans, and Chinese were using these chemicals, forgetting their place, and menacing white people.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

das Maßnehmen is ein altes Vorurteil, das die Schneider doch nicht hindert, jedes neue G'wand zu verpfuschen.

A true German can't stand the French,Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it can happen to you, too. Not all of us made bad life choices.