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Quotes About Prejudice

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
~ Piers Morgan
There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
~ Orson Scott Card
It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
~ Samuel Johnson
Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.
~ Steven Tyler
I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.
~ Susan Jacoby
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.
~ William Hazlitt
I love queers as much as the next guy, I just don't think I should have to sit beside them on public transport.
~ Zach Braff
Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
~ Brett Ratner
Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
~ Charles Bukowski
You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.
~ Chris Crutcher
Some of the signs [of anti-Semitism] you'll see are not put up by the people that love or like Donald Trump. They are put up by the other side.
~ Donald Trump
She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
If you are open to life's lessons and do not feed on beliefs and prejudices, you are like a blank sheet of paper on which God writes his messages to you in holy ink.
~ Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
That combination of forces—the over-lord, the white woman, and the black man—would have cost some—probably all of them—their lives in the Southern States of America.
~ Bram Stoker
Y pensar que hay gente tan ignorante que piensa que un loco no tiene argumentos!
~ Bram Stoker
Racism is man's gravest threat to man—the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reasons. —Abraham J. Heschel, rabbi and philosopher (1907–72)
~ Brenda Novak
He kept imagining women like his mother creeping across the border with the hope of being able to make enough to feed themselves and their families, and being murdered by some vigilante who felt he had the right to take the law into his own hands. It was so easy to feel self-righteous and superior when you had a comfortable home, a safe place to live and a full stomach.
~ Brenda Novak
The Smiths are singing and someone says Turn that gay angst music off.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
On my way over to Park Avenue to find a cab I pass an ugly, homeless bum-- a member of the genetic underclass-- and when he softly pleads for change, for anything, I noticed the Barnes & Noble book bag that sits next to him on the steps of the church he's begging on and I can't help but smirk, out loud, Oh right, like YOU read...
~ Bret Easton Ellis
just cool it with the anti-semitic remarks.
~ Bret Easton Ellis