Quotes About Prejudice

All because my husband doesn't trust anyone with an Islamic name. Or Jews, or blacks, or Asians, or Hispanics, or Mormons, or whatever. God, it's exhausting to keep track. With my accent, I'm amazed he married me.

In appearance though, Darrell seemed anything but a criminal. Erin was still naive enough to believe that all crooks had bad teeth, greasy hair and jailhouse tattoos. She assumed that cleancut, good-looking men enjoyed the same natural advantages as cleancut, good-lucking women: the world treated you better, and consequently there was no reason for unwholesome behavior.

Buck was no fan of Hispanics, but he couldn't bear listening to Blister berate the driver. When Buck was a boy, he'd overheard his father speak to a Puerto Rican auto mechanic the same way, and he remembered feeling uneasy and possibly ashamed. True, he and his brothers had grown up to be racist dickheads like their old man, but they weren't in-your-face racist dickheads.

We tend not to be especially critical when presented with evidence that seems to confirm our prejudices.

Prejudice means literally pre-judgment, the rejection of a contention out of hand, before examining the evidence. Prejudice is the result of powerful emotions, not of sound reasoning.

En lugar de juzgar a la gente por sus méritos y defectos individuales, nos concentramos en un par de detalles de información sobre ellos y a continuación los colocamos en una serie de casillas previamente establecidas. Con eso nos ahorramos el esfuerzo de pensar, al precio en muchos casos de cometer una profunda injusticia.

Society corrupts the best of us. It is a little unfair, I think, to criticize a person for not sharing the enlightenment of a later epoch, but it is also profoundly saddening that such prejudices were so extremely pervasive. The question raises nagging uncertainties about which of the conventional truths of our own age will be considered unforgivable bigotry by the next.

A survey shows that more college graduates are homosexual than those with lesser education; therefore education makes people gay.

It is a little unfair, I think, to criticize a person for not sharing the enlightenment of a later epoch, but it is also profoundly saddening that such prejudices were so extremely pervasive.

It almost never feels like prejudice. Instead, it feels fitting and just - the idea that, because of an accident of birth, 'our' group (whichever one it is) should have a central position in the social universe.

Abby_Donovan: Heathcliff was a misogynistic asshole. MarkBaynard: Could you explain that to my Lit 101 class? I hate to see all those impressionable young females swoowing over him like he's Edward Cullen. Abby_Donovan: I've always been Team Jacob myself. And Team Mr Rochester.

For despite the fact that Man was the only known Race, he still managed to find differences between himself and his brothers and sisters—differences of the coloration of their skin, of the location of their homeland, of the nature of their politics—and Man distrusted anything that was different.

Much of the media under capitalism avoid difficult, controversial or innovative work because it is bad for profits. Instead, they settle for banality, sensationalism and gut prejudice.

On handing the book back to my friend, the woman inquired Is he gay? No, said my friend. The woman pondered for a moment. Is he English? she asked.

Darken Rahl, as had his father before him, considered women merely vessels for the man's seed, the dirt it grew in, unworthy of higher recognition.

Rachel kept an eye toward the woman, fearing a slap. He looked over, too. He pointed with the scissors. "This is Kahlan. She scared me at first, too. She's awfully ugly, isn't she.

he was able to explain to the clergy that 'Women are: "Satan's bait, poison for men's souls".

confused elitist. She thinks the kind of car you drive defines you, along with your zip code.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.

Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.' 'Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others. 'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

I'm not superstitious. I'm a witch. Witches aren't superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.