Quotes About Prejudice

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

Along with these disparaging images of Black mothers, the media increasingly portray Black children as incapable of contributing anything positive to society.

The powerful Western image of childhood innocence does not seem to benefit Black children. Black children are born guilty.

Euginicists considered Southern Blacks to be especially unfit to breed based on a theory of "selective migration," which held that the more intelligent Blacks tended to migrate to the North, leaving the less intelligent ones behind. Selective migration was thought to explain the embarrassing finding that Blacks from Northern cities had scored higher on the army intelligence tests than some groups of Southern whites.

Dr. C, chief of surgery at a northeastern hospital, for example, gave Corea his opinion that "a girl with lots of kids, on welfare, and not intelligent enough to use birth control, is better off being sterilized." " 'Not intelligent enough to use birth control,;' " Corea added, "is often a code phrase for 'black' or 'poor.

Although most people on welfare are not Black, many Americans think they are. The American public associates welfare payments to single mothers with the mythical black welfare queen, who deliberately becomes pregnant in order to increase the amount of her monthly check. The welfare queen represent laziness, chicanery, and economic burden all wrapped up in one powerful image.

Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes they throw off like sparks... But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.

She was of course the last person to judge somebody by the color of their skin - or if not absolutely the last, she had at least done it as recently as yesterday afternoon /.../

Plenty of people didn't care for him much, but there is a huge difference between disliking somebody—maybe even disliking them a lot—and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive from day to day.

There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to have money.

When a man's ambitious, it's called drive. When a woman's ambitious, it's careerism and she's a bitch.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased... There is a great charity always to the dead.

These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.

All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.

Nobody over fifty has got any sense.

There seems to be a general idea that a clergyman is incapable of behaving like a gentleman. That is not true.

Men, they never think.

About Miss Debenham," he said rather awkwardly. "You can take it from me that she's all right. She's a pukka sahib. "What," asked Dr. Constantine with interest, "does a pukka sahib mean?" "It means," said Poirot, "that Miss Debenham's father and brothers were at the same kind of school as Colonel Arbuthnot was." "Oh!" said Dr. Constantine, disappointed. "Then it has nothing to do with the crime at all." "Exactly," said Poirot.

The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna - though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portugese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson.

The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread.