Quotes About Prejudice

As bonfires burned all over the country [on 10 May 1933], [Frederick] Birchall finished his piece for the New York Times: "There is going up in smoke more than college boy prejudice and enthusiasm," he wrote. "A lot of the old German liberalism—if any was left—was burned tonight" (citing Birchall in New York Times, 11 May 1933). Hitler had been in power exactly one hundred days.

Some people have a great fashion of calling things they do not like yellow. You exclude the yellow man. You fear the yellow peril. I edit a white paper turned out by yellow men, and many white men turn out yellow papers.

Los ignorantes odian lo que desconocen, pero además en la historia de Europa hay momentos execrables: La Inquisición, los pogromos... El judío es el extranjero o el diferente, alguien a quien culpar de todos los males de la sociedad. Ésa es la excusa que utilizan los poderosos para desvia la atención de sus responsabilidades hacia la propia sociedad.

El judío es el extranjero o el diferente, alguien a quien culpar de todos los males de la sociedad.

La maldad no está en nosotros sino en quienes se niegan a vernos como seres humanos.

One condemns the whole past as a time of ignorance and prejudice, while knowing nothing of that past and very little of the present.

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.

If he heard her, he gave no indication, just went on about "men who take advantage" and "helpless women" and "fates worse than death." Sophie wasn't positive, but she thought she even heard the phrase "roast beef and pudding".

They don't have to all be maidens." "Well, that's very liberal of you," Caroline said with a sisterly smirk. "But since I can hardly hand out a questionnaire as regards their experiences in that regard, we'll have to leave it there.

Simon korkutucu bir görünüme bürünmek için,düÅŸünceli bir ÅŸekilde çenesini s?vazlad?. "Son derece rahats?z edici genç bir kad?ns?n?z,Bayan Bridgerton,bunu biliyor muydunuz?" Daphne ona bakarak hafifce gülümsedi. "ÇoÄŸu kiÅŸi beni iyi niyetli ve sevimli biri olarak tan?mlar." "ÇoÄŸu kiÅŸi," dedi Simon sertçe, "aptald?r!

She had long since learned that it took a fully formed miracle to get them to admit that a woman might be smarter than a man about anything other than fabrics, perfumed soaps, and tea.

Knowing is rarely a prerequisite for hating.

People always feared what they didn't understand.

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He just looked at her as if she were an idiot. Or a woman. It was Tillie's experience that most men thought they were one and the same.

I had a holding deal with ABC to find me a show, and I was very clear about the kind of show I wanted to do, because Indian people have always been seen as - well, we've been put in a box, about who we should be like.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.

All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.

I think it is inevitable that we make Us/Them distinctions but there's nothing inevitable about who counts as a Them.