Quotes About Prejudice

I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'

I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way.

When I go back to Essex, where I grew up, I'm still appalled by the homophobia and casual racism and aggression. I live in Lewisham, in south London, and though it might look a bit rough, it's a diverse, friendly neighbourhood.

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.

Mrs. Vanderdecken,' Sylvia went on, 'says all men are repulsive and it's woman's disgusting task to live beside them.

She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

And, as to her papa, there is nothing so grand in being an Indian officer.

You thought I was a native! You dared! You don't know anything about natives! They are not people—they're servants who must salaam to you. You know nothing about India. You know nothing about anything!

I dare say it's because there's such a lot o' blacks there instead o' respectable white people. When I heard you was

The Pi Betas had accepted the fact that Rose was Mexican, but it was obvious they would just as soon ignore it. And they seemed to assume Rose wanted to do that, too. The other girls might not be overtly disturbed by the fact that Rose was a chicana, but they certainly were not going to encourage her to explore her heritage. No, if Rose joined the Pi Betas, she would have to deny the biggest part of herself. She would have to become completely American.

But Robin ...well, she's OK. We really don't have much in common, though. I get nervous around people who eat all the time.

You say halfer as if it's a terrible thing, he said. But everyone I've ever known has been a halfer; if old enough t-to be called an adult, then ch-childish in their prejudices. All of us in the world really, I take to be h-halfers- half human, half divine, halfers of the best sort. I'd think the s-same must be true for the people of Wonderland, that there's...there is no such thing as s-someone who is not a halfer, or even a quarter-er, if you'll allow me the inelegant term.

Blondes are like left-handed athletes, they all get a second look even if they don't deserve one.

Enclosures of any kind are a fertile breeding ground for hatred of outsiders

Enclosures of any kind are a fertile breeding ground for hatred of outsiders," she said. "That produces a bitter harvest.

Only a fool imagines he's beyond the reach of his prejudices.

Vjerske ustanove ovjekovje?uju odnos izme?u smrtnog gospodara i smrtnog sluge, re?e Leto.One stvaraju pozornicu koja privla?i ponosne ljude koji žude za mo?i sa svim njihovim kratkovidnim predrasudama!

All persons act from beliefs they are conditioned not to question, from a set of deeply seated prejudices. Therefore, whoever presumes to judge must be asked: How are you affronted? And this judge must begin there to question inwardly as well as outwardly. — The Question from Ritual of the Courtarena Guide to Servants of the Box

People always expect the worst of the rich and powerful, Sire. It is said one can always tell an aristocrat: he reveals only those of his vices which will make him popular.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. No, it was a question of fairness, a concept that went much deeper. The people upon whom judgment was passed must feel the fairness of it.

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. —FROM "MANUAL OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

If ever you're getting a dog, Francis, make sure it's a Buddhist. Good-natured dogs, the Buddhists. Never, never get a Mahommedan. They'll eat you sleeping. Never a Catholic dog. They'll eat you every day including Fridays.

They say she's always angry because she has red hair or she has red hair because she's always angry.