Quotes About Prejudice

I don't think the negro problem can be discussed coherently without bearing in mind its context; its context being the history, traditions, customs, the moral assumptions and preoccupations of the country; in short, the general social fabric. Appearances to the contrary, no one in America escapes its effects and everyone in America bears some responsibility for it.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

Then, too, he had a sort of prejudice against the way in which Florimel spent her time in seducing and murdering young men.

If you mean to make your side of the argument appear plausible, do not prejudice the people against what you think truth by your passionate manner of defending it.

Por causa da "sombria simbiose" entre o antigo ódio cristão contra os judeus e o racismo moderno, o programa antijudaico de Hitler, mesmo no seu ponto extremo, simplesmente não era tão ofensivo para a ampla população de católicos.

If you look over to see what the beautiful young woman sitting next to you is reading, and it turns out to be a book about angels, then you can with perfect justification refuse her entry into your life.

You need to train yourself not to judge people on the spot as besides it being not cool to do and hinders your personal growth it also has a major impact on your life as the person in overalls with no teeth may just be that billionaire God sent your way to answer your prayer for help in life

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes and we must.

Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

And certainly the history of the black-white relations in this country from the Civil War to the present unmistakably shows that as a people, America has never intended for blacks to be free. To this day, in the eyes of most white Americans, the black man remains subhuman.

Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because he never really believes it's his.

Because when you get down to it, thinking of somebody as 100% human seriously gets in the way of hating them.

I hate cops. You're either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen.

We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man

The people I know who thought brutal thoughts and acted in brutal ways - the racists, the sexists, the bigots - never seemed to doubt themselves. They were always sure that they were right... I almost envied them the strength of their beliefs. It must have made life so much easier for them.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

There was nothing benign about segregation, nothing accidental.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Tease hair, not homos!

That is not the point," he said. "I am an Arab and I resent the racial slurs you make against my people.