Quotes About Prejudice

Before I was cast on The Surreal Life my knowledge of Christopher Knight was pretty much he was on The Brady Bunch and I hated The Brady Bunch.

Fear knows no borders, and the terminology of hate has seeped into every aspect of life.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved.

I'm not saying he wants to be the guy who only likes white people,' Gat went on. 'He knows he's not supposed to be that guy. He's a Democrat, he voted for Obama—but that doesn't mean he's comfortable having people of color in his beautiful family

I'm not saying he wants to be the guy who only likes white people," Gat went on. "He knows he's not supposed to be that guy. He's a Democrat, he voted for Obama-but that doesn't mean he's comfortable having people of color in his beautiful family." Gat shook his head. "He's fake with us. He doesn't like the idea of Carrie with us. He doesn't call Ed Ed. He calls him sir. And he makes sure I know I'm an outsider, every chance he gets.

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.

There was a girl. Her name was Angie. She was fat.

Why will men have theories about women? I haven't any about men.

I, though less optimistic, had supposed that knowledge would bring understanding. We had not realized that what the public loathes in homosexuality is not the thing itself but having to think about it

man that is born of a woman must go with a woman if the human race is to continue" - sense of prejudice towards homosexuality

Granted the exceptions, he agreed that all Englishwomen are haughty and venal.

It was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everything that was not white or English.

was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everything that was not white or English. I

He further advised me to live like a man, with dignity and not let the colour of my skin cripple my spiritual growth or social consciousness. And he told me then that our shoutings against prejudice and discrimination would be empty and meaningless until, inside ourselves, we admitted no difference between men, any men, based on the colour of their skins.

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.

Liberate yourself from the white/black dichotomy!

What do you think of boybands?" I avoided eye contact, put my hands in my pockets, and shrugged. "Not my thing, really." What was he getting at? He chortled, and continued. "They are all the same. They've all got a lead singer whose head is stuck up his own arse, then a hard one who gets into trouble, an ugly one who wants to be taken seriously, and always, without exception, there's a gay one.

As white America chose itself over a truly just and multiracial society,

thirty years after Baldwin's death we are still wrestling with the fact that so many Americans continue to hold the view that ours is a white nation.

Color," as he wrote in 1963, "is not a human or personal reality; it is a political reality.