Quotes About Prejudice

Men are like turtles; they are classified and valued according to their shells. In

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

They scorned neighbors who drank tea and concocted an entirely fictitious sickness narrative around the beverage; they claimed tea stunted growth, turned men into pygmies, and transformed women into…'God knows what.' They claimed tea was stomped into chests by Chinese men with dirty feet, that it was infested with bugs.

I wondered what was so terrible about wearing pointy shoes. I knew my mam wouldn't be happy with what the Spook had just said. She believed you should take people as you find them, not just depend on someone else's opinion.

Our government seemed to expect the same of them as of white men. Poor Negroes! They are hopelessly inferior. . . . If you need combat soldiers, and especially if you need them in a hurry, don't put your time upon Negroes.

As long as society is anti-gay, then it will seem like being gay is anti-social.

It's necessary to exterminate these Jews like rats, once and for all. In Germany, thank God, we've already taken care of that. I hope that the world will follow this example.

On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear in the human heart — and their solution also lies in the human heart.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

He put out a hand for Dave to shake. "You're the only new friend of Tom's I've met. And you're just what I expected." "Yup," Dave said. "I wear three-hundred-dollar suits and drive an eight-thousand-dollar car. Mr.Taylor-stop measuring people that way." "It's American," Taylor said defensively. "And Nigerian. And Bolivian," Dave said. "It started in Sumer.

Do I look like a fag?" "I don't know what a fag looks like," Dave said. "And neither does anyone else.

Nous avions un camarade qui devenait facilement bossu. Il avait l'air si pitoyable que souvent dans le métro les Allemands lui cédaient leur place. Il s'asseyait avec mille précautions. Il portait beaucoup de choses dans sa bosse.

Aime moi noire, disait-elle à un homme. Blanche, tout le monde m'aimerait.

They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.

Don't forget that my mother wasn't Clanborn, either. RiverClan won't forget it, that's for sure, but it doesn't make me weak or stupid.

Now Darkstripe," Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, "is neither young, nor pretty. . . .

As if we're suddenly going to turn disloyal because we've found out our father is a WindClan warrior! Who'd want to join those scrawny rabbit-munchers?

he flinched when Dustpaw leaned toward Sandpaw and whispered, loud enough for Fireheart to hear, "I feel sorry for Fireheart's apprentice. Imagine a Clan cat being trained by a kittypet!" But for once Sandpaw didn't react. She just shot an uncomfortable glance at Fireheart.

That's just what Twolegs look like." Then they look pretty stupid

Because that was what we all did—we searched for labels for people until we found one we thought might fit, and then we sighed in relief that we had placed them.

That's because most gunters are male, and they can't accept the idea that a woman has beaten and/or outsmarted them.