Quotes About Prejudice

I told Pop I wanted to be a scientist when I grew up, but he said scientists were men, and I'd just get married.

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Can you stand on your legs?" Sydelle Pulaski asked. "Can you walk at all?" People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. "N-n-no. Why?" "What better disguise for a thief or a murderer than a wheelchair, the perfect alibi." Chris enjoyed being taken for the criminal type. Now they really were friends.

Just because he has black fingernails doesn't mean he's a monster-that's how you've defended yourself for years.

Like you, I know people who drink, people who do drugs, and bosses who have tantrums and treat their subordinates like dirt. They all have good jobs. Were they to become homeless, some of them would surely also become 'alcoholics,' 'addicts,' or 'mentally ill.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

If you're black and middle-class…every day you're [going to get] a lot of crap. You're going to get angry.

More recently political scientist James Q. Wilson has made a similar argument. "The best way to reduce racism real or imagined is to reduce the black crime rate," he says.

One woman, a Harvard-educated lawyer, learned to carry a Bally bag when going to certain exclusive shops. Like a sorceress warding off evil with a wand, she would hold the bag in front of her to rebuff racial assumptions, in the hope that the clerk would take it as proof that she could be trusted to enter.

I would like, just once, for a woman to see me as other than a person with a coronet. Simply as a man, no different than other men.

Whenever possible, Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, Chief of Clan MacAulay, avoided rooms crowded with Englishmen. They were all babbling gossips with more earwax than brains, as his father was wont to say. Though Shakespeare had got there first.

People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.

Never ever hold anyone/someone in contempt i.e. never ever despise/disregard anyone regardless of his or her colour/race/religion/tribe/language. Because, the very person who you're despising/disregarding presently is most likely to rule over you someday e.g. Barack Obama/Michelle Obama/Goodluck Ebele Jonathan among others.

You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

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Orgoliul unui om nåscut Ä«ntr o culturå micå este Ä«ntotdeauna rånit.

The white race increasingly deserves the name given by the American Indians: palefaces.

We all believe in many more things than we think, we harbour intolerances, we cherish bloody prejudices, and, defending our ideas with extreme means, we travel the world like ambulatory and irrefragable fortresses. Each of us is a supreme dogma to himself; no theology protects its god as we protect our self; and if we assail this self with doubts and call it into question, we do so only be a pseudo-elegance of our pride: the case is already won.

But even more aggravating to the Russian is the Jewish usurer, who since the Middle Ages has fastened himself like a leach upon producer and consumer, and who, if he does not borrow or lend, begs; and if he does not beg, carries on some suspicious business. A nation within a nation, the Jews are sometimes made the victims of popular hatred; the usually gentle Russians sometimes rise in sudden wrath, and the newspapers report to us dreadful accounts of an assault and murder of Hebrews. Russian

il primo massacro degli ebrei europei avvenne durante la prima crociata ad opera delle orde di credenti eccitate dai predicatori loro capi.

Ever, while you live, choose the popular side in an election; that is, if you have no particular political prejudices of your own; for there is no comparison between a reception of cheers, applause, and good-will, and one of cabbage-stalks, groans, and bad eggs. Besides, there is something exhilarating in the real, genuine affection (while it lasts) of a mob for their favourite of a day.

So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

Negro life is in fact as debased and impoverished as our theology claims.