Quotes About Prejudice

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

I was hoping you weren't gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul." "Uh...sorry," I said. "It's pretty much full-time now. The pay's not great, but the perks...

A lot of kids are shocked at the idea of people over thirty having sex." (Max)

Pee-poo are like dis, Rachel had told me once, putting the peachy-pink Crayola that used to be called Flesh into my hand. As if all the flesh that mattered was that color. That crayon was called Peach now, but the ideas behind its old name were still alive and present. Present everywhere, all across the country, but more overt in Birchville. I wouldn't raise Digby

We came up in a different time than you. Some nights these southern trees around here bore some strange fruit. You understand me? Now, I don't talk about that mess. Not with pretty little white girls whose foot never touched the earth until years after Dr. King got buried in it.

Our prejudices lead us to tear nature where we want it to break. Gary Greenberg, The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

Her grandmother wasn't alone in thinking that if you were a vegetarian you had to like tofu, as if it were an obligation you'd incurred.

as the Links, the Knickerbocker, and the New York Athletic Club continued to exclude Jews from membership.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

There's little difference between a lynching by the KKK and a police officer who puts a bullet in the head of a young Black man, and it happens time and time again.

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

And they need me," he said once. "They need someone to tell them what to think." "Don't be naive," Magdalena told him. "People already know what they think. People already have their prejudices well formed. They only want someone in authority to confirm their prejudices, even if its the mendacious authority of newspapers.

Es el perpetuo, empequeñecedor coro de quienes han decidido lo que soy antes de darme la oportunidad de ser otra cosa.

Está na natureza humana desprezar o que está em baixo e odiar o que está em cima, até ao dia em que sobes de escalão e recomeças.

what I call the soft bigotry of low expectations.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

I should say no more. Because when we dislike someone we are always very ready to believe any ill of them

She tried to remember that she was a Jew and must not be frightened, otherwise the Nazis would say that all Jews were cowards - but it was no use.

In the face of common prejudices that blame survivors for whatever happened to them, they want assurances from the community that they did not deserve to be abused.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

I can write in Latin, French, and common English. I will not, however, write in German; it is a barbaric tongue that curdles the ink.

I explained to her how the international corporations and banks that came to my school refused to interview women for jobs because women, they said, could not be in business. She

Foreign visitors who concerned themselves with the plight of the Jews – and the majority did not – had to deal with an unanswerable question. How was it possible for these warm-hearted, genial people, noted for their work ethic and devotion to family values, to treat so many of their fellow Germans with such contempt and cruelty?

The demands of war provided Hitler with just the excuse he was looking for to rid the regime not only of Jews, but also of Gypsies, socialists, the disabled and mentally ill, homosexuals, Poles, communists, or anyone else who did not fit the National Socialist ideal. The elimination of those deemed undesirable became an issue of prime importance.