Quotes About Prejudice

To enter the United States, I had to fill out a form declaring that I was neither a communist nor a homosexual—a requirement that was dropped only in 1990.

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

When someone strives & strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men, I say that intelligence has never saved anyone; and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.

Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.

It is the racist who creates the inferiorized.

Deep down in the European unconscious has been hollowed out an excessively black pit where the most immoral instincts and unmentionable desires slumber. And since every man aspires to whiteness and light, the European has attempted to repudiate this primitive personality, which does its best to defens itself. When European civilisation came into contact with the black world, with these savages, everyone was in agreement that these block people were the essence of evil.

Como el color es el signo exterior mas visible de la raza, se convierte en el criterio y en el angulo bajo el que se juzga a los hombres sin tener en cuenta sus logros educativos y sociales. Las razas de piel clara han llegado a despreciar a las razas de piel oscura y estas Ultimas se nie­gan a consentir por mas tiempo esa condici6n subordinada que les pretenden imponer

Dernièrement, un camarade nous racontait cette histoire. Un Martiniquais arrivant au Havre entre dans un café. Avec une parfaite assurance, il lance : « Garrrçon ! un vè de biè. » Nous assistons là à une véritable intoxication. Soucieux de ne pas répondre à l'image du nègre-mangeant-les-R, il en avait fait une bonne provision, mais il n'a pas su répartir son effort.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

Solo estamos en la edad de piedra del conocimiento de los animales y nuestra ignorancia al respecto sigue siendo enciclopédica. Por no mencionar los prejuicios ancestrales.

Race prejudice has unfortunately become an American tradition which is uncritically handed down from one generation to the next," Einstein declared.

Perhaps if you were a Jewess it might be different. He'd suspect you of wanting to hook me. And he wouldn't like that at all. Of course, if you were immensely rich he might, he just might consider a marriage possible — but even so he'd hate to hurt my mother's feelings. You see, he's still very much in love with her.

I made sure about their past before shaking hands with them. You have to be careful before you can accept a German.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

You profess to believe that "of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth"—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

Kurt Schumacher, the Hanover-based anti-Nazi who quickly became the leading figure in the post-war Social Democratic Party, was outraged. 'Wir sind kein Negervolk' ('We are not blacks') the fiery former concentration-camp inmate told Annan.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Acho que é melhor nos separarmos e eu ir tocar minha música em outro lugar com todos os meus preconceitos burgueses de fidelidade.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

They will imprison you simply for who and what you are