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Quotes About Prejudice

I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.
~ Gretchen Carlson
You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro.
~ Julius Streicher
The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
~ Madame de Stael
Trump appeals to the disaffected by loudly trumpet-ing what they want to hear: other people are always the problem, and the solution is to either put them in their proper place or get rid of them.
~ Michael R. Burch
I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.
~ Rand Paul
That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."
~ Bill Ayers
I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.
~ Bill Maher
Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.
~ Bobby Jindal
My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.
~ Cecily McMillan
People don't always want to have females as leaders.
~ Christina Aguilera
I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?
~ Dennis Prager
People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.
~ Desmond Tutu
I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.
~ Dree Hemingway
In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.
~ Edgar Hilsenrath
The man patrolling his prejudices never sleeps.
~ Steven Erikson
Of course there had been no such crimes. And the blood, which they had shed so profusely, had yielded no evidence of its taint, for neither the name of a people nor the hue of their skin, nor indeed the cast of their features, could make life's blood any less pure, or precious.
~ Steven Erikson
It is not for you to judge – yet how often is it that those in no position to judge are the first to do so, and with such fire and venom?
~ Steven Erikson
The first thing I want to make clear is that this violence, this terrorism, is not cultural. It isn't integral either to Arab or Muslim culture. I've done too many briefings for senators and congressmen who think that all 'towelheads' carry a pistol and a grenade. If you can't see beyond this stereotype, then we might as well stop now.
~ Steven Gould
But I think tackling prejudices is as important as offering shelter." Advertisement Simpson said she planned to encourage the Syrian women to have a coffee with their female neighbours.
~ Steven Morris
Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
~ Steven Patrick Morrissey
Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.
~ Steven Spielberg
Jacqueline Jones argues, "Race signifies neither a biological fact, nor a primal prejudice, and it lacks the coherence of a robust political ideology; rather, it is a collection of fluid, contingent mythologies borne of (among other imperatives) fighting a war, assembling a labor force, advancing the designs of demagogues, organizing a labor union, and preserving voting and public schooling as privileges reserved for some, rather than as rights shared by all.
~ Steven Stoll
Grundy HATE Nazis! Grundy hate EVERYONE!
~ Steven T. Seagle