Quotes About Prejudice

Men—" said Miss Williams, and stopped. As a rich property owner says "Bolsheviks"—as an earnest Communist says "Capitalists!"—as a good housewife says "Blackbeetles"—so did Miss Williams say "Men!

And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

From an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men.

There is a very thin line between nationalism and racism.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

Le New York Observer s'était déjà demandé s'il serait un jour possible de voir un homme noir libéré sous caution dans le cadre d'un procès pour meurtre, et je devais bien admettre que non.

A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.

The barbarian looter and the religious zealot are alike in their penchant for destroying what they don't understand.

You know what I hate most of all in the whole wide world?...More than people who think that if you're bisexual it means you'll fuck absolutely anyone (especially them)?

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

What were they thinking, those little German children? Did they see animals when they looked at us, or people? I wasn't so sure myself anymore.

Maybe Horst really believed all that "might makes right" malarkey. Maybe he didn't like an Irish boy showing up the German "master race." Or maybe he was just a bleeding maggot.

So, you're English?" Fritz asked. I bristled at the insult.

ANYONE WHO HAS PREJUDICES and whose perceptions are colored by self-interest will never see the truth in any area in which his bias operates. Only when his bias is removed will he be able to understand the truth. —RABBI ELIYAHU DESSLER (1892–1953)

Racial bias does exist, and until we can all admit its existence and become introspective as to whether our own personal biases are impacting how we deal with others, there will be no change.

I know from personal experience what it's like to be discriminated against. I remember people telling me, 'Ladies don't become lawyers,' and now I look at America and know what can be done.

Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Usually, people who don't have a broad perspective see gay people as servants - as people who are there to make them look good.

We have an institutional problem with pervasive racism.

I think Peter King... he's kind of narrow-minded.

I've seen petite brides carry a ballgown, and I have also seen plus-size women carry a ballgown, though you wouldn't think so.