Quotes About Prejudice

Fear begets violence and hatred," he answered. "It's the easy answer. Blame someone else. Blame the Gypsies, the Jews, the Communists, anyone but ourselves. Get rid of them, and it will all be fine. It's

Most people, women included, judge according to their own experience. We think what we need to think, in order to hold on to our own worldview and validate what we must believe. It is a matter of survival, although it may seem merely to be prejudice to someone else. It takes a lot of courage to turn your world upside down and start again. Most people have enough practical worries of survival not to look for philosophical ones.

the oldest trick in the book of a demagogue to blame all your troubles on an identifiable group. Turn people's attention to something they can hate, and they'll leave you alone.

It's actually happening: all sorts of people seen as misfits, dealt with as if they were a disease. And the Germans get away with it, because most people simply can't believe it would ever happen to them.

Deep within us all are the seeds of hate for what is different. We do not have to be taught these things. We have to be taught not to give in to them! They are in our blood; but in our minds is the charity and the love to overcome them.

Todos llevamos en nuestro corazón la semilla del odio hacia lo que es distinto. No tienen que enseñarnos esos sentimientos. Lo que tenemos que aprender es a no sucumbir a ellos. Los llevamos en la sangre; pero en nuestras mentes anida la caridad y el amor para superarlos.

She needed to keep an open mind. She might have been hasty in dismissing the entire male gender.

She had no patience with foreign accents.

But what if it's someone who's not our type? Someone who wears the back of her collar up or something?' 

Mothers hate beards.

They certainly didn't resemble the people you pictured when you saw those don't kill mee-maw signs urging masks and social distancing

Even if Africans chose to adopt the mores of the English, they could never overcome the powerful view that the differences between the groups were elemental and largely insurmountable.

Calling such people "mulattoes," from the Spanish word meaning "mule," insinuated that blacks and whites, though related, were close to being separate species, as a mule is the offspring of a horse and a donkey.

Yeah, I can read, he said. Didn't mean to shock you. Maybe you thought I ran around in a little wheel all day?

Bob, ihtiÅŸam?n, geçmiÅŸin as?ls?z gurur ve önyarg?s?na ödlekçe ve hiç düÅŸünmeden sar?l?rken, aÅŸk? edebiyetten topyekün ayr? düÅŸürmüÅŸ Bat? insan?ndan ziyade, DoÄŸululara ve köylü tak?m?na daha yak???r bir haz olduÄŸuna inan?yordu.

Zekiysen nefret eder, aptalsan küçümserler.

Por lo que veo —dijo Michiko, bajando la vista hacia su plato—, en Occidente tampoco sienten mucha simpatía por los zurdos.

The book didn't generate anything. All it did was give people a chance to express the biases they had before they even opened the book.

weren't smart enough or because they came from the wrong family. No, the reason that most of them didn't have a chance is that somewhere

stupid, and

When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.

She wanted to order him clapped in irons, as he so deserved. But she was stopped by what she saw in the faces of the watching men: disapproval, instinctive and involuntary, but disapproval, nonetheless. They were not comfortable when power was wielded by a woman, not at a man's expense, a man who had just acquitted himself so spectacularly at Lincoln, winning their reluctant respect in a way she knew she never could.

Men always think God favors their cause. I am sure Ya'q?b of Aleppo never doubted it, either.

Louis shook his head. Those who dismiss women as the weaker sex, he said mildly, have never met the Countess of Leicester.