Quotes About Prejudice

When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line.

I feel like Americans don't really have any idea of what's going on in the world, especially us Africans. I feel like when they think about Africans, they think about just us running around with lions and tigers and all those other animals.

People might call me the white man, but no one treated me as one.

Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly.

You're very beautiful, dear", she said, "what nationality are you, Indian?" "No", I smiled, "I'm Aboriginal." She looked at me in shock. "You can't be," she said. "I am." "Oh, you poor thing," she said, putting her arm around me, "what on earth are you going to do?

You're very beautiful, dear', she said, 'what nationality are you, Indian?' 'No', I smiled, 'I'm Aboriginal.' She looked at me in shock. 'You can't be,' she said. 'I am.' 'Oh, you poor thing,' she said, putting her arm around me, 'what on earth are you going to do?

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

It took me a minute to figure out that Colored didn't mean red and blue toilets. In Remus, nobody was scared to use the same john as a black man. I knew from experience: white shit doesn't look any different from colored. Remus

To this day, when I hear people judge students on the basis of their test scores, I think of my sleep-deprived African-American classmates as we geared up to take English or math tests together. We may have been equal before God, but I had three more hours of sleep, vastly more time to prepare, and many more resources at my disposal than those who were part of the busing program.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Very. It was supposed to be a white kid on the roof and a nigger that got shot. So they started a riot.

Is that a good enough reason to think that China and India, Africa and the Americas, whether at pole or equator, are simply uncivilised because they are different?

I think one of the great dangers faced by women over sixty in this country is starving to death in a restaurant. We were invisible.

There's nothing short of reincarnation that can change poor white trash into something respectable.

We are dismissed as emotional. It is enough to make you emotional.

it is dangerous to be perceived as dangerous.

Just because she's vegan doesn't mean she wouldn't murder someone.

pussies who rode small, gay horses

If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?

Yes, yes, Carter, I see your point. We simply let her ride away. We'll muster her out later. Discharge her for medical reasons. Have the quack in town sign the papers. You're right. Who cares if she tells her story? No one will ever believe that a woman served for two years in the Buffalo Soldiers. Most citizens can't believe niggers of any sex can be real soldiers. Yes, let her go.