Quotes About Prejudice

It's odd, isn't it? The poor hate the rich for having a life they think is easy and for the fact that they think the rich only got the money by screwing them. The rich think the poor are all rustics lacking manners and grace who are unwilling to work as hard as they do to get the money. Both groups see each other as thieves out to steal everything they've earned.

I blamed you for what other dragons did. Instead of judging you by your actions and heart, I judged you by theirs and by my own fear.

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

Look, a lot of people don't think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible.

That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.

If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

Later on in life I was like, "Wow!" because that's exactly how it was. They don't care that you're mixed. They see you as one color.

I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

It has always bothered me that many people, doctors included, tend to view anything that deviates from the typical as being abnormal or broken.

By Franklin Roosevelt's time Hilda Dietrich was forty, a housewife and mother, married to the Reverend Herman Dietrich, pastor of the Lutheran church. Like her husband, who said as much from his pulpit, Mrs Dietrich was fully persuaded that Italians were creatures with African blood, that all Italians carried knives, and that the country was in the clutches of the Mafia. It was no extremist theory. A lot of worried people believed it, particularly Italian-Americans.

As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him

Orman nodded wearily 'As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him

If she understood the difference between referring to me as "the gay guy" and using my name, the knowledge was lost between her vapid gaze and her single AAA-battery brain.

The tought that some people might be so ignorant as to think someone can be "turned" gay had just never crossed my mind. Who thinks this crap? Like homosexuality is a contagious disease. And if it was contagious, wouldn't a group of us have left packages of infected plaid shirts and jock straps lying around to turn the guys we wanted?

The very thought of being gay gave me chills. Not because of what I thought of it, but for what others would.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.