Quotes About Prejudice

Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.

Hey, you know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

I don't mind it if blacks want equal rights, as long as they mean rights equal to a dog

But even more than Tapioca, Cunningham, I dislike the following: Defense Attorneys as a rule, half-breeds in general, and Judas Iscariot as anything other than a cautionary tale.

Humanity is a deceptive noun that suggests our best qualities as a species, though it often masks prejudice and inequity.

Caroline, furthermore, was wan, pale, and dreamily beautiful, an exquisite creature who wept bitterly when she was told that families "of wretched poor" lived south of Canal Street, which was why her coachman would not drive her there.

When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in 'normal' French, as if the language they speak in francophone Canada is so barbarous that Parisians won't be able to understand

Forgetting the existence of Celts, African-Americans and many other branches of the Anglophone world, the French will blame 'les Anglo-Saxons' for whatever is irking them.fn8

Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by it's covered; for inside those tattered pages, there's a lot to be discovered.

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

Only stupid Indians brush past a bunch of hard-handed white dudes, each of them sure that seat you had in the bar, it should have, by right, been theirs. They're cool with the Chief among them being the chain monkey, but when it comes down to who has an eyeline on the white woman, well, that's another thing altogether, isn't it?

If the only good Indian is a dead one, then she's going to be the worst Indian ever.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

I spent my life trying to get out of Oklahoma because I was too good for Oklahoma. Then I got to the Ivy League and the people seemed to be so, you know, little. They were fundamentally bigots. They

It is one of the most dangerous, in fact potentially suicidal, things a great nation can do in world affairs: to cut off its eyes and ears, to castrate its analytic capacity, to shut itself off from the truth because of blind prejudice and a misguided dispensation of good and evil. Foster

Muslim extremists and their gunmen, of what could be called the Koran Kalashnikov Klan (KKK), as fanatical as white supremacists in the Ku Klux Klan, are seen as a mortal danger.

Ask anybody, would you want an ex-madman living next door? It's difficult enough being an ex-convict. It's double hard for us 'madmen'. Please believe it.