Quotes About Prejudice
A woman can never be angry; she can only be neurotic, hysterical, frustrated.
~ Shashi Deshpande
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Justice, in British India, was far from blind: it was highly attentive to the skin colour of the defendant.
~ Shashi Tharoor
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I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism--in order to believe themselves to be nonracist.
~ Sherman Alexie
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I measure men by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, and I find all of them are assholes.
~ Sherman Alexie
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The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
~ Sherman Alexie
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They call me an apple because they think I'm red on the outside and white on the inside.
~ Sherman Alexie
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During one week when I was little, Dad got stopped three times for DWI: Driving While Indian.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Mostly, I just think Mr. P is a lonely old man who used to be a lonely young man. And for some reason I don't understand, lonely white people love to hang around lonelier Indians.
~ Sherman Alexie
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We shuffled past white customers who stared at us with hate, pity, disgust, and anger—the Four Horsemen of the Anti-Indian Apocalypse.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Tr?i ?, bà nói. Ai quan tâm n?u má»™t ng??i Ä'àn ông mu?n l?y má»™t ng??i Ä'àn ông khác? Bà ch? mu?n bi?t là ai s? Ä'i nh?t ??ng t?t b?n thôi? ------------------------------------- Trích Nh?t ký hoàn toàn có th?t c?a má»™t ng??i Anh ?iêng bán th?i gian
~ Sherman Alexie
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The people at home," I said. "A lot of them call me an apple." "Do they think you're a fruit or something?" he asked. "No, no," I said. "They call me an apple because they think I'm red on the outside and white on the inside." "Ah, so they think you're a traitor
~ Sherman Alexie
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My white friends were visibly distressed by that loud singer and drummer. One of my friends, whom I shall call Tara, leaned forward and whispered, "I hate Indians." My four other white friends gasped, but it took Tara a few moments to remember that she was sitting beside me, her Indian friend. She burst into tears and spent the rest of the night apologizing. "It's okay," I kept saying. But it wasn't. I was hurt, ashamed, and angry.
~ Sherman Alexie
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He was a white man and, therefore, he was allowed to be romantic.
~ Sherman Alexie
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But it happens mostly because "being American" means "being white," even for a brown boy like me.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Nothing as white as the white girl an Indian boy loves.
~ Sherman Alexie
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She was so white his reservation eyes suffered.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't really fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Nah. I got it. Just try not to stake Jean-Luc again if you meet up with him. (Acheron) I can't help it. All you fanged people look alike in the dark. (Tabitha) Yeah. I know what you mean. All you soul-full people look alike to us, too. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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And I don't want his body touching something I wear. He'll contaminate it. (Sasha) Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You're four hundred years old and you're acting like a whelp. It's not like he has cooties or anything. (Astrid) Yes he does! (Sasha)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You don't like people who have money, do you? (Astrid) I'm not prejudiced against anyone, princess. I hate everyone equally. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Wolves don't socialize with humans. You guys tend to freak out when you learn what we are. Not to mention, your females are rather frail. I don't like having to hold back for fear of bruising or killing my partner when I mate. (Vane) And people think I speak my mind. Jeez. You will just say anything, won't you? (Sunshine)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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