Quotes About Prejudice

He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lispy, sassy voice--'or big-ass queer'--now he switches to his deepest Shakespeare voice--'I shall not take it upon myself to disabuse them.

Irkç?l?k zamanla de?i?en bir ?ey de?ildir, hep vard?r. Bu ba?lamda iyi insan olabilmenin çok önemli oldu?unu dü?ünüyorum. Sence insanlar iyi bir insan olarak do?up sonradan ?rkç?l?k gibi hasta bir fikre saplanarak m? kötü oldular, yoksa zaten do?u?tan kötü olup sadece iyi olabilmek için fazlas?yla çaba m? harc?yorlar?

naamon mein itna matlab bharnewali pravritti ke khilaaf bolte-bolte hum khud usi pravritti ke hote jaa rahe the. Aise baat karne lage the ki jaise sach mein do hee pehchaanein rah gayee thee aur sab-kuch ho gaya tha—Hindu ya Musalman. "..the strain of going on speaking against the tendency to imbue names with such connotations was turning us into people with that tendency. We would talk as if there were only two identities left and everything was either Hindu or Musalman.

Poor guy, she thought with a shudder. Clearly he had no idea the crappy hand he'd been dealt. If she had to choose between being an angel and a dog, she'd choose the dog. They, at least, were respectable" Bianka of Lasyter

What are you willing to discuss? You know what, never mind. You'll probably suggest the many ways to murder me.

People don't want other people to be people.

that crazy Hitler guy in Germany who doesn't want Jewish people to compete in the Olympics.

an act of violence based solely on an individual's racial origin is as abhorrent a crime as it is possible to commit, not least because of its futility and utter stupidity. It is a crime for those at the bottom of the gene pool. The work of morons.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

George Armstrong Custer

Weak men, indeed, are prejudiced towards rules and systems in life and government; and think if these are gone all is gone: but a man of a great soul and free spirit delights in the noble experiment of blowing up systems and dissolving governments, to mould them anew upon other principles and in another shape.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth, without making some other Englishman hate or despise him; English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

The 100% American is 99% an idiot.

I hate all white men, but I hate you less than any white man I have ever known.

You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

For we have a young lord and a middle-aged baronet—a shocking pair, who should not be allowed to live; but for family influence they would be doing their twenty years' penal servitude in jail, instead of living comfortably sequestered here. Like Ouida's high-born heroes, they "stick to their order," and do not mingle with the rest of us. They ignore us so completely that we cannot help looking up to them in spite of their vices—just as we should do outside.

And we, of the middle class, we stick to our order, too, and do not mingle with the small shop-keepers—who do not mingle with the laborers, artisans, and mechanics—who (alas, for them!) have nobody to look down upon but each other—but they do not; and are the best-bred people in the place.

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

once you become their Other, you're no longer a person. You're just an idea, an abstraction of everything that's wrong with their world. Give them the slightest excuse, and they will tear you down. And the easiest way for them to target you as this Other is to find something that's different about you. Color of your skin. The way you speak. The place you're from. Magic. It comes and goes in cycles, Kate. Each new generation picks their own Other.

A learned woman might just as well have a beard, for that expresses in a more recognizable form the profundity for which she strives.

Mi chiesero dove volessi andare. Mandatemi in un posto dove non ci sono italiani risposi per esempio perché non mi mandate a Davos? Mi risposero ma a Davos ci sono i tubercolotici... E io meglio la tbc degli italiani. E in quei momenti capii che si, era giusto che il fascismo fosse andato in malora, ma anche che quello che lo avrebbe sostituito non sarebbe stato migliore.