Quotes About Prejudice

The habit of considering a man's religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job is the modern form of persecution.

The bulk of the population of every country is persuaded that all marriage customs other than its own are immoral, and that those who combat this view only do so in order to justify their own loose lives.

Most people learn nothing from experience, except confirmation of their prejudices.

Most people learn nothing from experience except confirmation of their own prejudices.

One of the persistant delusions of mankind is that some sections of the human race are morally better or worse than others. This belief has many different forms, none of which has any rational basis.

Throughout the Middle Ages, the Mohammedans were more civilized and more humane than the Christians. Christians persecuted Jews, especially at times of religious excitement; the Crusades were associated with appalling pogroms. In Mohammedan countries, on the contrary, Jews were not in any way ill treated.

The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason.

most holders of authority were bigoted, illogical and not to be taken seriously. I

Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.

has been my observation that racism and sexism have an uncanny way of showing up together, like two fists on one body. The common denominator was clear as a bell from where I sat. It was superiority. I spoke out specifically to my own Southern Baptist world because I believed

For a long time trans people have always been a joke. Our reputation has always been the bottom of the barrel and it's not fair.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

Woman novelists seem to have a reputation for being dowdy.

Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

Evil is everywhere. But to believe that this is a country that resembles the Jim Crow-era is ludicrous and disingenuous.

I resent that I have to prove that I'm black.

I think a lot of people don't really understand. They call me a fat drag queen, which I resent, because I'm a character actor and a very good one.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that's what we're doing.

Short hair is reserved for the questionable characters, the vamps.

When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?

People across metro Detroit face discrimination every day in housing, employment, insurance - the list goes on. It might not always be explicit and in your face, but my residents know when they're being mistreated.