Quotes About Prejudice

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

You're not going to kill me, skin me, and wear my head as a hat?

She'd automatically assumed it was men trying to kill her. Look at that. She was guilty of reverse sexism or . . . whatever.

Now,' Kaine say, 'now this man free, bo'n free, but still, any white man what say he a slave be believed cause a nigga can't talk fo the laws, not ginst no white man, not even fo his own self.

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

TEN [exploding]. Bright! He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English! ELEVEN [slowly]. He doesn't even speak good English.

The public considers all women on stage to be of questionable morals, if not outright whores. But the serious Shakespearean actresses console themselves that at least they aren't involved in the vulgarity of musical theater. And those of us in musical theater congratulate ourselves on not being involved in the pornographic nonsense that is the burlesque. I don't know to whom the burlesque performers compare themselves, but I'm sure they feel superior to someone.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.

When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation's slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).

Liberty and justice for all" were beautiful words, but the ugly fact was that liberty and justice were only for white males.

When I looked at the white people who were doing this, consciously or not, it made me angry because so many of them were baser, less intelligent, less talented than the people they were lording it over. But the whites were in control. We could do nothing about it. We had no power. That was the way society was. I perceived that this was the way it was meant to be: things were organized to keep those who were on top up there. The country was racist all the way through.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

Will part of this nation rejoice at seeing the rest oppressed, and reward a leader who has cunningly manipulated its fears and prejudices? Or will a majority of voters insist on a leader . . . who will appeal to their birthright of idealism and their love of justice, instead of to their heritage of racism and special privilege?

Women can be divided, more or less, into cows and shrews, and the shrews are to be avoided. [p. 74]

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

Ich zum Beispiel sehe aus wie immer. Wie eine Schlampe ungewissen Alters, die Männer auslutscht, Zigaretten verschlingt, auf hohen Hacken hockt, in ihrem Dekoleté nach Dingen sucht, nach Spaghetti oder ausgelutschten Kippen, nichts findet und sich darauf einen Mann ansteckt.

As a chief justice of the United States once said, blacks were three-fifths of a human, and only a full human being should have rights, the implication being that three-fifths of a human being was something fit to function only as a beast of burden. Well, that is a distortion exposing the enemies of logic and reason, and among them are mass hysteria, hate, prejudice, and ignorance. With

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Stereotyping reduces individuals to an average, whereas science recognizes that many people fall outside the average range for their group.

Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.

It's sad to say, but it is much easier selling, for example, a crap Brazilian than a brilliant Mexican. The Brazilian gets across the image of happiness, party, carnival. Irrespective of talent, it is very seductive to have a Brazilian in your team.