Quotes About Prejudice

If there's anything worse than a whore it's a bore.

I avoided any direct reference to Jews and Blacks, who had never given me any trouble. All my trouble had come from white gentiles.

The trouble is that there are too many Chinks. When you kill a Chink he splits in half and becomes two Chinks.

America had been taught that beauty only resided in youth, especially in the female.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience

The Gays have not only come out of the closet, but they have managed somehow to put us into it.

When I see a man with a tidy place I know there's something wrong with him. And if it's too tidy, he's a fag.

they would say 'he said this, he did that', but they would never say 'she said this, she did that'. So I would say, they are sick, and I am well. Pardon me.

I thought about Nietzsche. There we were: a German stallion and a Jewish mare. The fatherland would adore me.

Being a common laborer all my life at poor and underpaid jobs, I had worked with more black men, known more black men, drank with more black men, fought with more black men than any theoretical liberal with books jammed between the ears.

that's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

I have nothing against 2 men sleeping together so long as I am not one of those 2 men.

I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..

L'amore è una forma di pregiudizio. Si ama quello di cui si ha bisogno, quello che ci fa star bene, quello che ci fa comodo. Come fai a dire che ami una persona, quando al mondo ci sono migliaia di persone che potresti amare di più, se solo le incontrassi? Il fatto è che non le incontri.

the world is full of shipping clerks who have read the Harvard Classics

Why did the Master Race movement draw nothing but mental and physical cripples?

Holmberg tried to help them, but he never fully grasped that the people he saw as remnants from the Paleolithic Age were actually the persecuted survivors of a recently shattered culture. It was as if he had come across refugees from a Nazi concentration camp, and concluded that they belonged to a culture that had always been barefoot and starving.

Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.

In the end, he said he judged the Bible to be a sound book. Nevertheless, he wondered why the white people were not better than they are, having had it for so long. He promised that just as soon as white people achieved Christianity, he would recommend it to his own folks.

The one subject never discussed, in my experience, was race relations. The prevailing view was that there was no reason to upset the status quo, and most were willing to continue existing conditions indefinitely.

Which meant gait metrics were unavailable, and facial recognition was notoriously bad at handling skin tones darker than a typical whitebread silicon valley bro. (It went all the way back to the color cards used to optimize photographic film stock for white-skinned targets in the 1950s: algorithms embodied the prejudices and biases of their designers.)

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Ho imparato a capire che né l'educazione né la cultura cambieranno mai il colore della mia pelle e che dovrò portarmi sempre dietro quello che nel mio paese è un marchio degradante. Se ci penso seriamente, non mi importa molto di questa vita. È l'animale dentro di me, non l'uomo, che vuole evitare la forca.

I am asking Julius to explain, I said, why his people are so partial to chickens.