Quotes About Prejudice

Dijo que siempre debía ser intolerante con la ignorancia, pero comprensiva con la incultura, y que ciertas personas, que no podían ir a la escuela, eran más instruidas e incluso más inteligentes que los profesores de universidad.

Whitefolks couldn't be people because their feet were too small, their skin too white and see-throughy, and they didn't walk on the balls of their feet the way people did - they walked on their heels like horses.

Although there is nothing amusing about racial discrimination, the oppressed find funny things to say about it. The white folks are so prejudiced in my town, a colored person is not allowed to eat vanilla ice cream.

Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being called out of his name. It was a dangerous practice to call a Negro anything that could be loosely construed as insulting because of the centuries of their having been called niggers, jigs, dinges, blackbirds, crows, boots and spooks.

But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.

Yeah, she's such a headcase. I guess it's never occurred to her that two people of the opposite sex can just be friends

All those guys on the wrestling team, though - they scare me. And they're so homophobic... well, you can't help wondering about their sexual orientation, I mean they all think I'm gay, but you wouldn't catch me in a pair of tights grabbing some other guys inner thigh.

What's with the labels?" I demand, tugging back. "Why do people have to be defined by their sexual preference? Can't Shari just be Shari?

We have a saying in my country that a beautiful woman deserves love. (...) Ugly women do not? asked the queen as if genuinely curious.

Snobs are the worst. Especially elite snobs like her, who think they're so sophisticated when really, they're closed-minded. They live in their fancy bubble and think that's all there is to life. I turn away, but she's not done with me yet.

Harper was well aware of how pretty white women enchanted society. Girls with brown skin like hers disappeared every day and people on the internet barely batted an eye.

It didn't matter that Amelia was fluent in Mandarin and could code as well as a first-year at Peking University, she was still treated like her mother: as an interloper.

like all of her, wrong sex, wrong class, wrong attitude...

When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp—and hate.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

For Sarah, at least, the nightmares had vanished like morning fog, and now she felt sorry for the others, who were not being sent to the Harton School, even though some of them had looked down their noses at her because she wasn't being sent to a "first-class academy.

Had she been fully white, had she been a man, Alderscroft would have had her brought into the fold and properly taught immediately.

Equality,' said Steerpike,' is the thing. It is the only true and central premise from which constructive ideas can radiate freely and be operated without prejudice. Absolute equality of status. Equality of wealth. Equality of power.

I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went over her house for the first time and her father opened the door and I was surprized to see he was colored. Because, to me I was so used to her she always looked normal. Lazy Mary

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men ; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

At the center of the way black male selfhood is constructed in white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy is the image of the brute—untamed, uncivilized, unthinking, and unfeeling.

Most black people are anti-racist (even those who have internalized racial self-hatred) and will not argue that whites are better, superior, and should rule over us. Yet most black people are not anti-sexist (even those whose life circumstance may make it impossible for them to rigidly conform to sexist roles) and will argue the natural superiority of men, supporting their right to dominance in the family and in the world outside the home.

All too often in our society, it is assumed that one can know all there is to know about black people by merely hearing the life story and opinions of one black person.