Quotes About Prejudice

Calling you a racist and sexist, a bigot and a homophobe, gives them a sense of satisfaction with their status in the universe, even if they never help a single individual human being.

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

if you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.

Ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy...An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

any other, was disgusted, and attended his preaching no more.

You don't need to belong to any particular class or ethnicity to be a nerd, but some ethnic stereotypes are nerdier than others.

In a woman whose chief capital is her beauty, to be forty is a crime against society.

Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

I think we assume a lot about both genders. But in particular I think we assume that only boys play games and that boys are only interested in playing games that reflect their narratives and their interests.

Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.

I'm Asian, so they assumed I'm not an American and that I come from Japan. Restaurants would refuse to serve me, and places would refuse to give you a haircut.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

I had a roommate who refused to believe that there were black people from Australia and that I just had this accent. I got frustrated. I'm saying, 'mate, you've never heard of Aboriginals?' And he definitely never heard of the Torres Strait Islands.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.

Asian-Americans are still regarded as 'other' by many of their fellow-citizens.

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.

What David Duke was preaching to me in 1978 about the Klan and what the Klan wanted to do regarding immigration is the same rhetoric, the same position that Donald J. Trump advocates and ran on and is trying to implement.

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.