Quotes About Prejudice

Humans are ingenious at sniffing out minor differences to figure out whom they should despise.

Excluding 9/11 and Oklahoma, about twice as many Americans have been killed since 1990 by right-wing extremists as by Islamist terror groups.

Until they do, these older and less-educated people (mainly white men)

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.

You could tell he was a bad guy because he didn't have a tan

And why does it so often seem to be the very people standing so visibly against prejudice who so often appear to feel obligated to denounce humanity itself?

Others...are so sure the world is full of nothing but bullies that they become bullies themselves, trying to hit everyone in the world first. But a life of getting in the first shot isn't a life. Not really, anyway.

Maria Cabaçu era feia, mulata escura, filho de negro e india, grossa e zangada. Dava nos homens que a achavam feia. Mas se entregou toda a um cearense amarelo e fraco que a amou como se ela fosse uma mulher bonita, de corpo belo e olhos sensuais.

Florence fue triplemente discriminada: por ser extranjera, por hablar francés y por ser mujer.»

En qué código, en qué escritura, en qué ciencia había aprendido yo que los prejuicios priman sobre las realidades? ¿Por qué era mejor que otros, sino por mis obras? El hombre de talento debe ser como la muerte, que no reconoce categorías. […] Usted sólo tiene un problema sumo, a cuya lado huelgan todos los otros: adquirir dinero para sustentar la modestia decorosamente. El resto viene por añadidura.

A los blancos hizo Dios, A los mulatos San Pedro, A los negros hizo el diablo Para tizón del infierno.

El hombre mediocre es una sombra proyectada por la sociedad; es por esencia imitativo y está perfectamente adaptado para vivir en rebaño, reflejando las rutinas, prejuicios y dogmatismos reconocidamente útiles para la domesticidad.

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

Naglalaho sa loob ng klase ang mga hadlang na itinatayo ng politika upang hatiin ang mga lahi, natutunaw wari sa alab ng kaalaman at kabataan.