Quotes About Prejudice

In this world, the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

los peores misóginos siempre son mujeres.

Zlo?a pretpostavlja moralnu odluku, nakanu i stanoviti promišljaj. Debili ili prostak ne razmišlja niti rezonira. On djeluje nagonski, kao zvijer, uvjeren da postupa ispravno, da uvijek ima pravo i ponosan je što podjebava, s oproštenjem, svakoga tko mu se u?ini druk?ijim, pa bilo to bojom, vjerom, jezikom, nacionalnoš?u ili, kao u slu?aju gospodina Federica, slobodnim aktivnostima. Na svijetu nam treba više istinski zlih ljudi, a manje potpunih budaletina.

El mal presupone una determinación moral, intención y cierto pensamiento. El imbécil o cafre no se para a pensar ni a razonar. Actúa por instinto, como bestia de establo, convencido de que hace el bien, de que siempre tiene la razón y orgulloso de ir jodiendo, con perdón, a todo aquel que se le antoja diferente a él mismo, bien sea por color, por creencia, por idioma, por nacionalidad

Cuando todo el mundo se empeña en pintar a alguien como un monstruo, una de dos: o era un santo o se están callando de la misa la media.

Porque en esta vida lo único que sienta cátedra es el prejuicio.

Novels, as everyone knew, were for women and for people who had nothing better to do.

There are a lot of morons out there who only go by appearances

perhaps because I'm unable to understand beyond my own prejudices or because there is nothing else to understand and the crux of the matter lies in simply believing or not believing, without stopping to wonder why.

si algún día tiene usted una hija empezará sin darse cuenta a dividir a los hombres en dos clases: los que usted sospecha que se acuestan con ella y los que no.

She's not evil. Calling all demons evil is like calling all Muslims terrorists. It's racist." Bill holds up his hands, "Oh, well in that case I apologize. She can stay.

Trying to educate a bigot is like shining light into the pupil of an eye—it constricts.

Everyone seated at the table stared at Mimi and the kids. They did not speak nor give them any form of recognition or welcome to join them. How dangerous can a grandmother and four kids look? Christina whispered to Alex, who giggled.

There were no Middle Ages in America, dumb-o," said his sister. "White people hadn't gotten here yet. Only Europe had Middle Ages.

Mercy had never liked thinking about Eliza marrying an Indian. But what was her own future now? Would she, would Sarah, would Ruth, end up marrying an Indian? The image of Ruth Catlin agreeing to obey an Indian as her lawfully wedded husband made Mercy laugh.

Prejudice is a funny thing," Levi said, crossing his arms and leaning against the wall. "Kind of like a grudge. After you've had it for a while, you tend to forget what made you feel that way in the first place.

V.L.A.D.: Vampire League Against Discrimination.

When someone out there says that I'm not really human—what are they giving themselves permission to do to me?

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back to religion. All his troubles come down just to that.

All white people looked similar to Negroes but Negroes took care to differentiate between them. On the other hand, all Negroes looked similar to white men but white men did not usually bother to fix the face of a Negro in their minds.

Mick had heard Portia say that before, but she had thought it was a tale. How could a colored man be a doctor?

Your amateur's not cluttered up with academic prejudice, Miss Holroyd," Richard Tindall was fond of saying. "He hasn't read every single thing that has ever been written on the subject. The amateur sees a problem in its simplest form and it doesn't occur to him that it's insoluble.

Of course, in these racial passion plays, though the "good guys" might have been either black or white, the villains were nearly always white. It was tricky for the majority of blacks during the antebellum era to separate friend from foe. As one African American confided: "They [whites] was all . . . devils and good people walking in the road at the same time, and nobody could tell one from t'other."4