Quotes About Prejudice

Unless you want to fuck me, why do you care what I look like?

I'm opposed to segregation. It's basically antisocial and gives rise to the worst kind of sexism... When a boy or girl has been forced along the straight and narrow for an unnatural length of time, most of them rush headlong into unexplored territory at the first brush with freedom. I think it causes a lot of disillusion and unhappiness.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up.

Vedete», disse Fonardi senza senza badargli, «il calcio da queste parti è un carnevale di maglie allegre che nasconde la realtà di un Paese dove bianchi e neri godono di opportunità molto diverse. Per questo è importante che squadre come il San Giorgio o noialtri possiamo competere in Serie Africa contro i club di soli bianchi. Il terreno da calcio, qui, è l'unico posto dove si può proporre una società diversa, dove il razzismo sarà solo un brutto ricordo.»

La conversación tomó rumbos cosmopolitas: a ella lo que más le gustaba del mundo era Nueva York, porque no había indios, sólo negros.

The Jewish anomaly thus

If Judeophobia has a millennial trajectory, anti-Semitism was born in the second half of the historical sequence noted above (1850–1950).

we can separate ideological anti-Semitism – the golden age of which ran from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War, from Drumont to Hitler – from anti-Semitism as a diffuse prejudice, the source of a more or less declared hostility, not necessarily bound up with discriminatory practices, of which some vestiges still persist today.

Anti-Semitism as prejudice and social practice, however, remains, yet it is the object of a general condemnation both in civil society and in state institutions.

Poles and Russians had been detained in Auschwitz before it became a death camp for Jews,

heard in communist circles that numbers of Jews were being gassed."45.

relations between Jews and non-Jews not only became worse almost immediately after 1933, but they continued to worsen over time.

anti-Semitism became ever more palatable and popular among their German neighbors over the years.

therefore, the Jewish survivor evidence points toward the conclusion that anti-Semitism before Hitler came to power had either lain dormant or had not been very widespread among the German population. After Hitler came to power, however, it became ever more virulent over time.

Hemos sido engañados a creer que acumular la sabiduría del mundo nos hace sabios, cuando realmente quizás sólo nos llene de prejuicios.

As Georges Clemenceau, reporting on Reconstruction for a French newspaper, observed after the war, "Any Democrat who did not manage to hint that the negro is a degenerate gorilla would be considered lacking in enthusiasm."57

If you excel, you will be "remarkable for being an Indian." If you fail, you will be "no surprise because you're an Indian." Every observation in between extremes will be framed, even

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.