Quotes About Prejudice

Sería concebible para un jurado inglés que pudiera existir un negro que no robara ni mintiera? ¿Un negro que fuera una persona respetable? No parecía probable.

It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome. At

He picks up a book and begins to read, but he is not attending to what he reads and he has got to page 22 before he discovers it is a novel – the sort of work which above all others he most despises – and he puts it down in disgust.

Vittima dell'intolleranza sociale verso comportamenti devianti.

Don't assume, when a lady wants to take up a task or a cause, that is just a hobby.

A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr. – Sydney Smith

He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like.

It was a face that needed soap and water and Christian tolerance.

If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit

They'd snigger and say she just kept Clyde around because she was a robust she-male who had to have a bull in her bed.

The man is so narrow-minded his ears rub together.

Never judge a family by their address or bank account. And never underestimate the power of the American public to utterly shock and disappoint you.

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart. And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what's being said around her. Nevermind if a man's mother and sister showerd them they heard everything while they stictched, he'll still think a woman who plies her needles saves all her brains for the work. You're a far better spy hemming sheets than if you clank with daggers.

Why does he speak of them that way? The crow-man wanted to know. They are humans, just like he is. I don't think he sees them as just like him. Ally explained. He is foolish then, said Nawat. There are more raka than Bronaus.

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?" Alanna shook her head, smiling a little. In the three years she had been disguised as a boy, she had learned that boys know girls as little as girls know boys. It didn't make sense—people are people, after all, she thought—but that was how things were.

You come from a race that spends more time murdering your own kind than do all the immortals put together, yet you insist you are better than us.

Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

Have you not discovered that when people, men and women, find a woman who acts intelligently, they say she acts like a man? - Character: Ali Muktab. The Woman Who Rides Like A Man

How many black boys Jamil's age would one day end up staring down the barrel of a police officer's gun because of a quick assumption, or fear?

Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

People tend to react to other people in wholesale rather than in detail, right? He's a minister, so I hate him. She's beautiful, so I like her. One month later you wake up and realize you have nothing in common with the woman.

Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gastrointestinal issues, "Oh, he has autism. That's the problem"—and then he didn't treat the GI problem.