Quotes About Prejudice

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

You have to remember we are in a part of the world where prejudice and injustice against women is high.

Racism is a by-product of ignorance,

This inability of Americans to value intellect is, to me, maddening. If someone possesses physical beauty, they will not be cloistered or hidden in dark shadows.

We aren't rednecks. We're European. Big difference.

little bigotty kind of people.

WHEN TRAMPS and hoboes would come to their door for food, the southern white people would drive them away. But if a Negro come, they will feed him. They'll even give them money. They'll ask them: Do you smoke, do you dip snuff? Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'. They was always nice in a nasty way to Negroes. But their own color, they wouldn't do that for 'em.

My neighbors were angry with my mother, because she fed hungry men at the back door. They said it would bring others, and then what would she do? She said, "I'll feed them till the food runs out." It wasn't until years later, I realized the fear people had of these men. We didn't have it in our house.

It had been a fix-up, a blind date set up by a well-meaning skinny coworker who had no clue that most men in Southern California placed overweight women in the same category as serial killers and believed them worthy of the same punishment—the death penalty.

Eminent doctors warned against Munch's Pointillist canvas, Spring Day on Karl Johan, counselling that looking at such pictures brought on spotty conditions such as acne, measles and chicken pox.

one more person ask me if i knew the hijackers. one more motherfucker ask me what navy my brother is in. one more person assume no arabs or muslims were killed. one more person assume they know me, or that i represent a people. or that a people represent an evil. or that evil is as simple as a flag and words on a page.

So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your crimes.

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

If living in Minnesota has taught me one thing, it is that people will lash out at whoever tries to show what sits behind the appearance of things, especially if their own bias is the culprit.

Black exists only because America is White.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Whether it's singing, modeling, acting, you name it, they always label you as the YouTuber, the social media kid, the social media star. It's something that I've heard - a lot - but I kind of just put it to the side.

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.