Quotes About Prejudice

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the asylum?" (Editorial, The Times , 22 July 1853)

Women should stick to knitting," said Napoleon.12

Contrary to the popular stereotype of abortion-seeking women as promiscuous teenagers or child-hating professionals, around 6 in 10 women who have abortions are already mothers.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Schumann admitted, but only to himself that if hyenas were beautiful and could sing and dance, he would forgive them for being hyenas. But would they ever forgive him for being human?

When the middle and upper classes feared water, roughly from the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century, they washed as little as peasants or the urban poor.

In Spain, the early Christian concerns about the corrupting influence of bathing and the late medieval worries about the plague were compounded by the Moorish occupation. Because the Moor was clean, the Spanish decided that Christians should be dirty.

I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.

Rien n'est plus monotone que les illusions d'originalité chez des hommes à qui l'on a inculqué, dès l'enfance, le préjugé du « génie créateur »

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Around the same time, it was reported from Odessa: "All the schools are full, bottom to top, with Jewish pupils, and to be honest, the Jews are always the best in their class."20 Thinking back on his

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming.

You would think women would want to stick together when there weren't that many of them, but they never did. It was as if being a woman was a disease that you didn't wish to catch. As long as you didn't associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men: I'm not like those other ones.

No, I've been doing this myself forever. I could have gone in here myself, but my daddy doesn't want me to get raped. That happens all the time in bathrooms.

You realize that, to the boy with the gun, it probably doesn't matter what particular "other" he is looking at. Or maybe he doesn't mistake Sam for Ant.

You would think women would want to stick together when there weren't that many of them. But they never did. It was as if being a woman was a disaster that you didn't wish to catch. As long as you didn't associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men, I'm not like the other women.

Until Harvard, he had not realized that in America—and not just in its college theaters—there were only so many roles an Asian could play.

Why was it acceptable for apparently well-meaning people to see the world in such a general way?

A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don't you? I'm terrified of that world , and I don't want to live in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American-born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Koreatown, Los Angeles. And as any mixed race person will tell you--to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.

saw a show where a convicted murderer did law school by correspondence so that he could try to get himself acquitted." "I'm not a murderer," she said. "I'm a slut, and you can't be acquitted of that.

And maybe some of those people will pause before they say gaydar." "They'll pause and say, 'Now I know this isn't PC . . .' and then, they'll say it anyway," Archie says.

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming. Sunday