Quotes About Prejudice

I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?

Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

What's the matter with you guys? The sight of blonde hair knocks you three rungs down on the evolutionary ladder.

Such wickedness, to marry in secret and then deny it. I was told English aristocrats only have time for dogs and horses. This is clearly not true.

ten centuries ago people would have snorted just like that at the idea of a black as Head on this planet. Such narrow stupidity seems fantastic to us now. Our own prejudices will seem just as comical to our great-great-grandchildren.

I know little about the women of my own race...

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

Do you think you help people because you are in love with them? Well, I've got news for you. You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person. Take a minute to think about that: You are never in love with anyone, you're in love with your prejudiced idea of that person.

Like the little girl who says to a little boy, "Are you a Presbyterian?" And he says, "No, we belong to another abomination!

The moment you say so-and-so is wise or is cruel or defensive or loving or whatever, you have hardened your perception and become prejudiced and ceased to perceive this person moment by moment, somewhat like a pilot who operates today with last week's weather report.

K?zlardan birini bugün yüzme havuzundan att?lar. Inge Hanmann'?... Onun gibi bir k?rma ile birlikte yüzmemize izin veremezlermiÅŸ. Temiz deÄŸilmiÅŸ. MelezmiÅŸ, Werner. Biz de öyle deÄŸil miyiz? Biz de yar? annemiz, yar? babam?z deÄŸil miyiz?

It's 1940 and no one laughs at the Hitler Youth now.

A una chica la han echado hoy de la piscina. A inge Hachmann. Nos han dicho que no podemos nadar con mestizas, que es poco higiénico. Una mestiza, Werner. ¿No somos nosotro stamibén mestizos? ¿La mitad de nuestra madre y la otra mitad de nuestro padre?

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

You think ghosts and witches and vampires and ghosts and two-headed monsters are bad. Why? Do you know what that is, David? It's prejudice. Racial prejudice!

It was the reference to Down's syndrome that most upset him. Mary described it as an 'awful sickness'. It wasn't. It was a condition, not an illness. What sort of woman could see it as a threat to her own bloodline? Had she really pulled up the drawbridge on her son's marriage simply to protect future grandchildren from

There was a simmering hostility between them even now. Hawthorne was homophobic. It was his least endearing trait. I'm sure Spencer had picked up on it.

closed my eyes, quietly adding casual racism to the charge sheet against Hawthorne

Atticus Pünd had no time for religion. During the war, he had been persecuted not for what he believed but for what he was, a Greek Jew whose great-grandfather had emigrated to Germany sixty years before he was born, unaware that although he was bettering his own life, his decision would lead to the extinction of almost his entire bloodline.

Is that why you asked if Weston was married? You think he's gay too?' 'It wouldn't surprise me. That sort look after their own.

The Korean word for "Korean" is Hanguk-saram and so they called us gooks.

I hadn't liked him the day I'd met him although the strange thing is that I'd always loved his books.

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.