Quotes About Prejudice

Himes observed at once that Negroes were not the only ones to suffer discrimination and violence. Filipinos, Mexicans, and Japanese Americans were also vulnerable. The fragile sense of interracial fraternity he had known during his WPA years was all but dissipated.

Jack Warner "didn't want any niggers on his lot." At another studio where he was being considered for a publicity position, he learned that the all-Negro cast of Cabin in the Sky was excluded from the whites-only commissary.

All things being equal (fortunately things are seldom equal, not exactly), people prefer to be with others who look like them, speak the same dialect, and hold the same beliefs. An amplification of this evidently inborn predisposition leads with frightening ease to racism and religious bigotry. Then, also with frightening ease, good people do bad things. I know this truth from experience, having grown up in the Deep South during the 1930s

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

pseudospeciation, the reduction of alien societies to the status of inferior species, not fully human, who can be degraded without conscience. Even

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.

When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.

GOOD Reader. When I first penned this discourse, I intended it chiefly for the satisfaction of my private friends: but, since that time, have been persuaded to publish the same. And the rather, because of a disorderly Colony [of Thomas Weston's men] that are dispersed, and most of them returned [to England]; to the great prejudice and damage of him that set them forth.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

It was weird to me to go to school all week and experience racial diversity, but then on Sunday be faced with the option of having to choose between black and white. This didn't seem right to me. The whole world outside of the church seemed to be in full color, but the church looked like the black and white television of the old days.

Discrimination has not the horns; however, it has the attitude, which one feels, and one ignores; it harms and hurts, indeed.

Fight reasons and context that cause racism, not just the term.

Hatred, racism, discrimination, distinction, and vainglory germinate in the soil of ego.

No one can hide and stop the stink of ego, racism, distinction, and discrimination.

Shortly and briefly; however, significantly, the definition of discrimination is, Mine is Best; I am Best.

The discrimination does not only relate to the creed, caste, and colour, but that also describes the severe attitude if one respects higher class and humiliates the lower or middle class in any shape.

humans are so quick to decide that anything they don't understand is evil.

When a man has been burned once with hot soup he forever after blows upon cold rice"; so these men of China will think long before trusting again a foreigner with their silver.

Alicia doesn't approve of lupi, but she went to bed with one?" "Amazing. After working homicide, you still think people are consistent.

The shabbier the snobbier.

the only real difference between racist, sexist people and those who are not is the conscious effort that the latter make to counteract their learned-in-childhood, unconscious prejudices.

There's no leeway for a woman's looks. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot.