Quotes About Prejudice

Eugenics—the 'science' of racial improvement—was more than an Edwardian-era fad, like vegetarianism or rambling (though it often appealed to the same constituencies).

Why young women? Why not young men?" She smiled. "Because the history of this world is written by men determined to cast women in the worst light.

What have you got against Germans? The War's over, you know.

Somebody hates vampires, Mr. Chambeaux, but I have no idea who or why. Haven't they read Twilight?

They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume are good people." Many Americans expressed outrage at these views, but in fact Trump was just repeating a message that had long been normalized on both sides of the political aisle.25

By the early decades of the twentieth century, Republicans and Democrats each had made peace with white supremacy. Notably, when the Klan revived in the 1920s, the second version found supporters in both parties: Democrats in the South, Republicans in the Midwest.

Racism is a prejudice erected into a system.

You know, at Vanderbilt, there was a kind of boy who wore pastel shorts and boat shoes. They wore seersucker, like they were racist lawyers from the forties. I hated them. They seemed like children but they already looked like middle-aged men. I called them Mint Julep Boys, like they missed the Old South because, even if there was horrible racism, it was worth it if it meant that they could be important by default.

That does not surprise me,' Annie said and once again hung up the phone thinking that she had chosen to surround herself with people who were, for lack of a better term, retarded.

I was ten when Mike Smiley, half-Indian, skinny, brown-skinned, brought the word jigaboo to school like lunch, or the flu, fed him by his adopted white father who said that's what we called them then. By noon it was done--everyone had a name for what had been bothering them, some thing utterly human as hate.

A finger is a gun-- a wallet is a gun, skin a shiny pistol, a demon, a barrel already ready-- hands up don't shoot--

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

There is no crime in anyone's blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others

Men. Such easy prey. Which is why so many men hate women...or at least fear them, which is much the same thing. They know, even if they don't know they know, that a smart good-looking woman holds all the cards. They know, even if they don't know they know, that males are the weaker sex. Why else would they repress females all over the world from the dawn of historical time?

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

This Is My America is a piece of fiction; if this story were true, there wouldn't be an immediate happy ending for the Beaumonts. They would continue to live in the same society, combating racial prejudice and inequality – with all the disadvantages and stains of post-prison survival and recovery.

Like matter, injustice presents itself in different forms.

So now you be facing me for ideas, eh? What makes you think a simple, brainless woman like myself would have any idea on how to accomplish men's work? Why, I feel faint just trying to think any thought at all. (Cat)

Here in America, where every nationality confirmed its stereo-type

Because for people like me, there are two hells," Nessa said. "One where there's fire and brimstone and another filled with rich white people. And I don't want you beating up the first person who asks me to get them a drink.

Until they get to know the real you, people's stereotypes don't mean much.

Nobody cares if I die for fighting Marathi breed....

The RSS attitude of spurning the intellect and denouncing the intellectuals has worked as a self-fulfilling prophecy: since they left the intellectual field entirely to their enemies, the available intellectuals would not be "of any use to the nation", meaning not sympathizing to the RSS programme. The political Hindu movement has paid a heavy price for this silly anti-intellectual prejudice.

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.