Quotes About Prejudice

prejudice is the energy of ethnocentrism. It lurks there, napping, until ethnocentrism summons it to do its dirty work, justifying the occasional bad things we good people want to do.

Daisy had her own criteria for judging people. On the whole, she expected to like people she met, and on the whole, she did. It seemed to her a much pleasanter way to live than to go about looking for superficial defects such as the wrong class, or a brown face, thus eliminating a lot of delightful people from one's acquaintance.

Quando havia um conflito, quem ia preso era o negro. E muitas vezes o negro estava apenas olhando. Os soldados não podiam prender os brancos, então prendiam os pretos. Ter uma pele branca era um escudo, um salvo-conduto.

Houve até um projeto dizendo que se o mulato tivesse o cabelo liso era considerado branco, se o cabelo fosse crespo então o mulato era considerado negro.

Sexism is judging people by their sex where sex doesn't matter.

It's like they can smell the public school on me.

her accent is so thick that I feel bad for the words coming out of her mouth.

The song "Born in the U.S.A." comes on and he groans. "I hate Bruce Springsteen," he says. "Can we do something about this? Goddamn whiny Democrat, we get it . You're from New Jersey and you think it's cool to be poor . Just fuck off already.

Skeçler yaz?p sirk müdürüne götürdüm. Bana, "Ne yaz?k ki zencisiniz." diye cevap verdiler. K?v?rc?k saçlar?mla, esmer tenimi ne kadar sevdiÄŸimi unutuyorlar halbuki. Hatta zencilerin saçlar?n? beyazlar?nkinden daha muntazam buluyorum. Bizim saçlar?m?z daha uysald?r, istediÄŸimiz yerde kal?r. Beyazlar?nki ise en küçük bir baÅŸ hareketinde yer deÄŸiÅŸir.

Neither de Gaulle nor anyone else was keen to admit that much of France had not only tolerated anti-Semitism and xenophobia but actually anticipated German wishes in identifying and deporting Jews. (Moorehead, 2011, 305)

A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader?

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African. Of the hundreds of Negro high schools recently examined by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education only eighteen offer a course taking up the history of the Negro,

Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to learn better.

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. Northern and Western institutions, however, have had no time to deal with matters which concern the Negro especially. They must direct their attention to the problems of the majority of their constituents, and too often they have stimulated their prejudices by referring to the Negro as unworthy of consideration.

The educated negroes have the attitude of contempt toward thier own people because they are taught to admire the Hebrews, the Greek, the Lati and the Teuton and to despise the African.

Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all.

Behind closed doors these "friends" say you need to be careful in advancing Negroes to commanding positions unless it can be determined beforehand that they will do what they are told to do. You can never tell when some Negroes will break out and embarrass their "friends." After being advanced to positions of influence some of them have been known to run amuck and advocate social equality or demand for their race the privileges of democracy

This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom. Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

Negro teacher instructing Negro children is in many respects a white teacher thus engaged, for the program in each case is about the same.

Highly educated" Negroes denounce persons who advocate for the Negro a sort of education different in some respects from that now given the white man.