Quotes About Prejudice

confident that you gentlemen will go along with them on the assumption-the evil assumption-that all negro men are not to be trusted, all negro men are basically immoral beings, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber which we know it is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin.

But remember that to kill a mockingburd is a sin.

Kad je gospo?ica Kerolajn stigla do mesta gde Gospa-Ma?ka poziva samoposlugu da naru?i miševe u slatkom ?okoladnom prelivu, razred se ve? vrpoljio kao crvi?i za pecanje u tegli. Izgleda da gospo?ica Kerolajn nije bila svesna toga da su odrpani, u košulje od grubog platna i suknje od džakova za brašno odeveni prvaci, od kojih je ve?ina po?ela brati pamuk i hraniti svinje ?im je prohodala, bili neprijem?ivi za književne maštovitosti.

The point of this chapter's unflattering précis of nascent American medicine is not to castigate it for its primitivism, but to put blacks' historical aversion to medical care into context, for most antebellum blacks were subjected to southern medicine. The

So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They all tell me I look like a first grader or a concentration camp survivor. What's this thing that guys have for girls with long hair? Fascists, the whole bunch of them! Why do guys all think girls with long hair are the classiest, the sweetest, the most feminine? I mean, I myself know at least two hundred and fifty unclassy girls with long hair. Really.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.

They often got my file mixed up and thought that I had gone to juvenile detention for being a prostitute. All I had done was date a pimp.

My dad had told me that if you stayed out after nine and you were a girl it meant that you wanted to have sex with whoever was passing by. He told me that if I got raped after nine o'clock the courts would probably say I deserved it.

How could we not look down on people when they were looking up at us?

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.

Wherever people burn books, there, finally, they will also burn people.

Chiamarsi Darcy e starsene tutto solo con aria sdegnosa a una festa mi ha subito colpita come una cosa abbastanza ridicola, un po' come se, in Cime Tempestose, Heathcliff passasse tuttta la serata in giardino a gridare Cathy e a sbattere la testa contro un tronco.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'

With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there.

No one should be written off because of their background. This is a moral proposition but it is also an important political lesson.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

Everybody wants to protect their own tribe, whether they are right or wrong.