Quotes About Prejudice

Does it ever happen that a nice girl is a Lesbian? she asked him shyly.

I didn't think they liked women in a place like this." Jack guided her to a barstool. "Oh, they're friendly enough. They know you wouldn't be here if you weren't gay. They figure, you leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.

Skinny girls have skinny minds

After Minnesota experienced a rash of Hmong gang rapes, animal sacrifices, and one child murder, as well as a particularly shocking mass slaying of Minnesota hunters, a local talk radio host suggested that the Hmong "either assimilate or hit the road." The Baltimore Sun somberly reported his "hateful words," adding with sadness that no one had ever "dared to blurt out [such sentiments] publicly.

Throw in "never read books" and you have the dictionary definition of a liberal. Being completely uninformed is precisely how most liberals stay liberal. According

I think one of the reasons I don't talk to some people about it is because they are so judgmental. Quite frankly, it's not that society can't understand, it's that they won't understand. People choose to not understand. —

There was no way Swanilda could have been black

eyes slant, Claud.

Anti-Semitism is intrinsic to both Christianity and Islam; both traditions consider the Jews to be bunglers of God's initial revelation.

And the fact that millions of people use the term "morality" as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.

But faith is still the mother of hatred here, as it is wherever people define their moral identities in religious terms.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Every man adheres as long as he can to his own pre-conceptions.

She hadn't been taught to have prejudices, so she didn't.

But something had shifted. She pursued it, saying, "My father was a Jew of Venice. 'Tis true: I am of that hated race." He said cautiously, "Much evil is spoken of Jews. But men will speak villainously of anything strange. I am sure they say much that is false.

1935 Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor

Having evidence of being wronged does not stop you from being judged as in the wrong.

It is deemed more polite to assume you are white.

Misogyny was born of fear of women.

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

Isabel had hated me on sight, and not because I was fat. Just because she could.

I was distracted, thinking about what she'd said, until she got to this last part. Sherman? I said. She nodded. That's John and Craig's friend. He's visiting from Shreveport. Sherman from Shreveport? I said. This is the guy you're determined I go out with? You can't judge a book by its cover! she snapped. When I slid my eyes toward Forbidden , she grabbed it up, shoving it back under the bed. You know what I mean. Sherman might be very nice.

When there is fear about the future, it is comforting to take it out on outsiders who can be blamed for the past.

It drives me crazy how quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?