Quotes About Prejudice

I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy.

All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

Sometimes I think bimbo is just another word men made up so they could feel superior to women who are better at survival than they are.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

But there is yet another prejudice that dyslexics, and those who try to help them, have to combat. This is the deep-rooted idea that all learning, all education, any expression of ideas, must be done through language, through words. The idea that is possible to learn and communicate visually, through colour and shape, seems to be heresy, though it is one that naturally occurs to dyslexics.

When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses.

Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good mothers were meant to revile. We regret to report that nearly all of these women were African American and were disproportionately featured as failed mothers in news stories about "crack babies," single, teen mothers, and welfare mothers.

My weaker sex is still believed by most to be highly susceptible to fits and hysteria. I, being a woman, had better odds of becoming a future mental patient than of becoming a psychiatrist.

Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good.