Quotes About Prejudice

SAINT PETER: I hated your ass to look at it. SAINT MATTHEW: And I looked at you, Peter, as a dumb, ignorant fisherman.

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.

have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.

The United States fought Germany and Japan, racist societies, with a segregated army.

It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman.

We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am thinking, if this too was added to the bonfire. Also the works of that decadent lesbian Bolshevik, Jane Austen.

The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians

Slaves, women, and foreigners were all essentially the same to ancient men—contemptible. They were all other.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

It's easy—too easy—to either disbelieve or disregard someone you dislike.

You know what, kid? It's guys like you who give reading a bad name.

People assume any twentieth-century white male writer must be an alcoholic.

Men still think the same things about us they have always thought, Ruth - I'm sure of it. A lot of them have learned to say the right things at the right times, but as my mother used to say, 'Even a cannibal can learn to recite the Apostles' Creed'.

People hate what they fear.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are

To see a man's true colors, tell him you're saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman's true colors, tell her you're poor.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.