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Quotes About Prejudice

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.
~ Newt Gingrich
Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.
~ Anna Quindlen
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
~ Charlotte Lennox
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.
~ Erin Morgenstern
It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.
~ Mischa Barton
People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
~ Nick Frost
And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
~ Oscar Wilde
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
~ William Ellery Channing
Racism is not funny, because it won't solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great.
~ Werley Nortreus
If your fancied god hates those you hate, then, this bumbling idiot is as little, and as buggered, as you are, O' little one.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Every misogynist came out of a woman.
~ Mat Johnson
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.
~ Hilary Mantel
Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.
~ Torey L. Hayden, Murphy's Boy
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
~ Harper Lee
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
~ Harper Lee
Underneath, he was a good cat. Loyal and loving. But no one ever bothered to look past his rough exterior, because in reality, looks meant more than everyone wanted to admit.
~ Cambria Hebert, #Nerd
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
~ Anne Lamott
?nsano?lu nedense anlayamad??? ?eylere kötülemeye meyilli.
~ Elif Shafak
Some people say, 'Do not judge the book by its cover!' Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.
~ Toba Beta
certain kinds of music will never be accepted by certain people.
~ Michael Azerrad
Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.
~ Michael Buckley
I wanted to tell him that the judge was being insensitive and probably racist.
~ Michael Connelly
In any case, this was a deep human prejudice. Human beings to find a central command in any organization. States had governments. Corporations had CEOs. Schools had principals. Armies had generals. Human beings tended to believe that without central command, chaos would overwhelm the organization and nothing significant could be accomplished.
~ Michael Crichton