Quotes About Prejudice

As inclined as blacks understandably are by painful experience to believe the contrary, racism is not black-specific. It is like the Hydra, the lethal many-headed mythological snake whose heads regenerated as fast as they were severed. Racism is a social disease that exempts no race from either of its two rosters: victims and victimizers.

Don Rickles, the Jewish comedian, in a late-night television appearance on July 19, 1999, told host David Letterman that were it not for Mexicans, his bed would never be made at his Las Vegas hotel. It was a nakedly racist remark.

How very American, he thought, to look at a disease as homosexual or heterosexual, as if viruses had the intelligence to choose between different inclinations of human behavior.

What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

Most importantly, the epidemic was only news when it was not killing homosexuals. In this sense, AIDS remained a fundamentally gay disease, newsworthy only by the virtue of the fact that it sometimes hit people who weren't gay

Don't offend the gays and don't inflame the homophobes. These were the twin horns on which the handling of this epidemic would be torn from the first day of the epidemic. Inspired by the best intentions, such arguments paved the road toward the destination good intentions inevitably lead.

Humans who have been subjected to a lifetime of irrational bigotry on the part of a mainstream society can be excused for harboring unreasonable fears.

When a London gay switchboard's lines broke down because they were so overwhelmed with AIDS calls, telephone company employees refused to fix them because they were afraid of contracting AIDS through the wiring.

Racism requires lots and lots of dumb emotion, plus a dose of stupidity.

**I, RAS CARDO WILL SAY THIS TRUTH:ANY WHITE OR BLACK PERSON WHO WILL LOOK AT ANOTHER -HUMAN BEING- AND SAY THAT BEING IS A-NOBODY- IS TELLING THE WORLD THAT HE WHO SPEAKS IT IS -A SOMEBODY. THIS LIKE THE--N- WORD IS ONE OF THE MOST DENIGRATING AND HATEFUL REMARKS ANYONE COULD MAKE. THIS WAS THE SAME WORDS THAT-CHRIS BLACKWELL OF ISLAND RECORDS OPENLY SAID IN MEDIA ABOUT US FROM TRENCH TOWN.

the system set. The truth is:- insurance premiums are set on mortality rates so that companies would pay out less than they take in. In america black people died earlier than whites.So discrimination set in. Racism dictated that-emancipated blacks were uninsurable. Discrimination based on statistics has now a technotyrannical basis. We have become a racially decadent society.

Familiar words for dead black boys portrayed as complicit in their own demise. Michael Donald's body had been hanged on a Mobile street, and the police were doing the same thing to his name.

Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...

Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone's faces.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

Wittgenstein was very much against women's suffrage for no particular reason except that 'all women he knows are such idiots'.

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

Bond believes that short people cause all the trouble in the world.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

Shortly after he became the first Muslim to attend cabinet, I urged Sadiq Khan to be prepared. The Islamophobes, the new McCarthyites, would at some stage come after him. He laughed it off. Yet it was only a matter of time.

I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that when I call them, I'm going to make sure to say, 'I'm a black guy, and this is my house.'

I don't care much for Canadians.

I've been fortunate in my career, but, yes, there have been many times when I have been told my audition has been cancelled because they're only going to see white people.