Quotes About Prejudice

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

You're the most terrible snob, Clark." "What? Me?" "You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are "not that sort of person"." "But, I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person.

ARE THESE PEOPLE SUCH FOOLS THAT THEY CAN'T COPE WITH SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T DRESS LIKE THEM? WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEONE YOU'RE SO CLEARLY NOT? DO YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF 'THOSE' WOMEN?

Kau membatasi dirimu dari segala macam pengalaman karena kau meyakini bahwa kau 'bukan orang semacam itu'. - Jojo Moyes : Me Before You hlm.272

assertions about men: sleazy, chancing, self-serving, porn-obsessed slackers.

Women, the clerk announced, would be allowed to leave several minutes before the men at lunchtime and at the end of the day in order to prepare meals, a fact which caused Beth to roll her eyes.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person.'" "But I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?

TRAVEL IS FATAL TO PREJUDICE, BIGOTRY AND NARROW-MINDEDNESS… BROAD, WHOLESOME, CHARITABLE VIEWS OF MEN AND THINGS CANNOT BE ACQUIRED BY VEGETATING IN ONE LITTLE CORNER OF THE EARTH ALL ONE'S LIFE. —MARK TWAIN

You can't divide the country up into sections and have one rule for one section and one rule for another, and you can't encourage people's prejudices. You have to appeal to people's best instincts, not their worst ones. You may win an election or so by doing the other, but it does a lot of harm to the country.

Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.

Must you believe everything you are taught? Must you hate because someone told you to?

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

So if a man live in any way of lasciviousness, the more his impure lust prevails, the more sweet and pleasant will it make the sin appear, and so the more will he be disposed and prejudiced to think there is no evil in it.

I'm going to tell you something," Ali said, "and I don't want you ever to forget it . . . Black men scare white men more than black men scare black men

Ali was everything everybody wanted their child to be, except some ignorant-ass white folks, and they don't count

Guided by anger, prejudice, or patriotism, boxing's rulers decided that Muhammad Ali was unfit to wear the sport's crown because he was a Muslim who refused to fight for his country.

Sonny Liston is America's curse. He is the black menace sprung from white racist stereotypes. And he likes it that way.