Quotes About Prejudice

When people think what is the most simple sort of human, it's a white man, and anything else that is added to that complicates it for people. It comes with all kinds of meanings and connotations. If they have a different skin color, that comes with a connotation. If they're a woman, 'Oh well, what do I feel about that?'

Funny, I think that the only reason I'm compared to Prince is because of my skin color.

On a college campus, one's right to speak - or to be - must never be based on skin color.

Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

People see a big dude and they hear that high pitched voice or "Eglasias with an 'I'" and love it because they can relate and go "I know that person!".

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women; it has often cloaked a very real prejudice, even when it is offered in the name of science.

What is problematic is that the young people are operating with a very limited definition of what it means to be Black, based largely on cultural stereotypes.

While perhaps not everyone who voted for Donald Trump shared the bigoted views of his White supremacist supporters or agreed with the offensive statements he himself made about Mexicans, Muslims, inner-city Black and Latinx communities, or women, on Election Day those things did not prevent millions of people from saying yes to Trump. That is a painful reality for those who have been his target.

The process of finding oneself in the face of invisibility, silence, and stereotypes is not an easy one.

Privilege goes unnoticed, and all but the most blatant acts of racial bigotry are ignored.

Can people of color be racist?" I reply, "The answer depends on your definition of racism." If one defines racism as racial prejudice, the answer is yes. People of color can and do have racial prejudices. However, if one defines racism as a system of advantage based on race, the answer is no.

Using the same logic, I reserve the word sexist for men. Though women can and do have gender-based prejudices, only men systematically benefit from sexism.)

Mo] sapeva che a Caterina, Cecilia e Maria, quando avessero messo piede su Deneb, nessuno avrebbe chiesto di compilare un modulo sbarrando la F. e non la M. per relegarle di conseguenza in uno scompartimento di seconda categoria.

Others did not fare so well. A German man in St. Louis who was believed to have spoken ill of his adopted country was set upon by a mob, dragged through the streets tied up in an American flag, and hanged. A jury subsequently found the mob leaders not guilty on the grounds that it had been a "patriotic murder.

The British molecular biologist Rosalind Franklin, who played a central part in discovering the structure of DNA but suffered from the heavy chauvinism of her male colleagues.