Quotes About Prejudice

The Reverend Jesse Jackson once said, "There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."[

As always when he went abroad, Jonathan regarded the German passport officers with a degree of wistfulness. Soon he would be placing himself under foreign sovereignty, a guest; he would have to hold his tongue instead of being allowed to demonstrate his superiority. When you'd started a world war, murdered Jews and taken people's bicycles away (in Holland) the cards were stacked against you.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Ha egyszer kiszabadul a soviniszta dzsinn a palackból, az nem csak a Nyugat ellen irányulhat. Otthon is találhat célpontokat, mint a nemzeti kisebbségek és a vendégmunkások milliói a mai Oroszországban. Ahogy egy közép-ázsiai nagykövet kérdezte Moszkvában orosz barátjától: - Mit m?veltek ti a nektek dolgozó embereinkkel? Harcos iszlamistaként térnek haza...

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

The deepest of all the stereotypes is the human stereotype which imputes human nature to inanimate or collective things.

Beurteile niemals ein Buch nach dem Umschlag!

Beurteile ein Buch nicht nach seinem Umschlag!

El prejuicio es una lacra (no creo que sea una enfermedad psicológica), una malformación de la convivencia humana y por eso, hay que enfrentarlo, denunciarlo y controlarlo, como lo hacemos con cualquier otro mal. No hay excusa.

The white world defines who is white and who is black.

There is nothing with which poverty coincides so absolutely as the colour black - small or large population, hot or cold climates, rich or poor in natural resources - poverty cuts across all of these factors in order to find black people.

White criminals commit the biggest crimes. A brother might rob a bank. A white man will rob a pension fund. The brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. The white guy will get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.

If you see a white man running, you think "He must be late for a meeting." When you see a black man running, you think, "I'm calling the cops. Hey, somebody stop his black ass!"

Knowledge is power, and truth is knowledge; whoever, therefore, knowingly propagates a prejudice, wilfully saps the foundation of his country's strength.

Hate has always been the blinder used by those who own slaves. It allows those they enslave to only see those who escaped the yoke, and not the one that sits holding the reins. The moment you hear anyone fear-mongering and pointing fingers, you should look for the shackle on your ankle." "Don't

No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.

Many people aren't happy with the refugees coming to their country. Maybe we came illegally, but every other door was shut in our faces. What do they expect us to do?

Arabs used to produce science and algebra and now we're famous for killing.

Today, the word "refugee" is used in a horrible way. It's something either to be pitied or blamed for everything. Overpopulation? It's the refugees. Rents going up? It's the refugees. Crime? It's the refugees. If you label people refugees, they remain refugees for the rest of their lives.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

Ansyen Prezidan Ayiti a Jean-Bertrand Aristide di ke Ayiti se peyi ki gen anpil moun ki viktim sou konsyans moun ki prejije. Mwen panse li di anpil verite.

El expresidente haitiano Jean-Bertrand Aristide dice que Haití es un país con muchas víctimas de los prejuicios. Creo que está diciendo la verdad.

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says Haiti is a country with many victims of prejudice. I think he is telling the truth.

L'ancien président haïtien Jean-Bertrand Aristide dit qu'Haïti est un pays avec de nombreuses victimes de préjugés. Je pense qu'il dit la vérité.