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Quotes About Prejudice

Ciò che i Nazisti hanno fatto agli Ebrei, gli umani lo stanno facendo agli animali
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
You are going to be judged harshly because success in women is not easily forgiven.
~ Isabel Allende
Tal vez la vejez es otro comienzo, tal vez se pueda volver al tiempo mágico de la infancia, ese tiempo anterior al pensamiento lineal y a los prejuicios, cuando percibía el universo con los sentidos exaltados de un demente y era libre para creer lo increíble y explorar mundos que después, en la época de la razón, desaparecieron.
~ Isabel Allende
Color prejudice is so strong that if a woman has yellow hair, even if she has the face of an iguana, men turn to look at her in the street.
~ Isabel Allende
Si hubieras tenido el pelo tan negro como lo tienes ahora, los patrones habrian tirado la caja en la basura.
~ Isabel Allende
In her experience, light skin and money made almost anything easier. She wanted her grandchildren to come into the world with an advantage.
~ Isabel Allende
He's a woman!" he shouted, horrified. Padre Mendoza and the others came running up, only to stand and stare, mute with amazement, at the virginal breasts of the warrior. "It's going to be much more difficult to kill him now," Padre Mendoza sighed finally.
~ Isabel Allende
Captain Longfellow—who, like most Englishmen, was kinder to animals than to people
~ Isabel Allende
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.
~ Isabel Allende
The Belascos' garden remained deaf to the defamatory propaganda campaign against the Japanese, who were accused of unfair competition against American farmers and fishermen, threatening white women's virtue with their insatiable lust, and corrupting American society by their Oriental, anti-Christian ways.
~ Isabel Allende
El racismo se le pasó antes de una semana cuando averiguó que en los Estados Unidos nosotros no somos blancos, sino hispánicos y ocupamos el peldaÅ"o más bajo de la escala social.
~ Isabel Allende
but his monumental pride prevented him from recognizing in the man any virtues beyond those that marked him as a good peon.
~ Isabel Allende
Nada de cíclopes, ni gigantes, ni hombres con cuatro brazos y cabeza de perro, pero encontraréis con seguridad seres primitivos y malvados, especialmente entre los castellanos»
~ Isabel Allende
Contaban los españoles que muchos indios practicaban la sodomía, que en España se paga con la muerte, aunque los incas la habían prohibido. Buena prueba de la lujuria de esa gente eran las cerámicas eróticas que los aventureros mostraban en las tabernas para regocijo de los parroquianos, quienes no sospechaban que se pudiese holgar de tan variadas maneras. Aseguraban que las madres rompían la virginidad de sus hijas con los dedos antes de entregarlas
~ Isabel Allende
Apenas comprendió que en Estados Unidos ella no era blanca, se le pasó el racismo, y su amistad con Tabra barrió sus prejuicios contra artistas y gente de izquierda.
~ Isabel Allende
Years later, when it had become the fashion to love someone from a different race or to have children without marrying, Alma admitted to herself that her greatest prejudice was that of social class, which she never managed to overcome. In spite of the
~ Isabel Allende
En fin, aunque nos aferremos a la ilusión de la juventud, la mayoría de la gente de mi edad avanza a tranco largo hacia la decrepitud y todos vamos a terminar muertos antes de que el prejuicio contra la edad sea abolido.
~ Isabel Allende
During the war the Chilean Nazi Party paraded with brown uniforms, flags bearing swastikas, and arms raised in a Nazi salute. My grandmother ran alongside, throwing tomatoes at them. This woman was an exception because in Chile people were so anti-Semitic that the word Jew was a dirty word, and I have friends who had their mouths washed out with soap for having dared say it.
~ Isabel Allende
Si pudo ser ministro de Educación sin haber terminado la escuela, igual puede ser ministro de Agricultura sin haber visto en su vida una vaca entera —comentó el senador Trueba.
~ Isabel Allende
People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts.
~ Cliff Curtis
There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.''
~ Gillian Flynn
When I was a kid, I had zero Jewish friends. Not because I hated Jews, but because Jews don't want to live with us. And us Arabs, we don't want to live with Jews.
~ Nuseir Yassin
In 19 years growing up in Israel I had no Jewish friends. Zero.
~ Nuseir Yassin
Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists.
~ Helen Thomas