Quotes About Prejudice

The goyim are a curious people," Malpesh once said to me, before he had discovered who and what I was. "Not curious that they want to know things," he clarified, "curious that they don't.

How sad that so much is judged on appearance, rather than substance.

I was a second class citizen before the zombies and I'm a second class citizen now.

On their way to the first session of the new Parliament, a group of Nazi deputies uniformed in brown celebrated by smashing department-store windows down the Leipzigerstrasse; 'by some odd chance,' a Jewish journalist noted in her diary, 'the casually aimed projectiles hit only non-Aryan targets.

Oh, Maureen. Don't be so naive. Everybody knows what it's like these days. The authorities bend over backward to help immigrants. You ought to know that, being in nursing. It's all opportunities for ethnics, not for decent, hardworking white folks.

Speaking of God in Northern Ireland has too often fomented distrust and prejudice, not peace and reconciliation; speaking of God has too often been part of the problem, not of the solution

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

It is a foolish judge who, before the evidence is presented, makes a judgement.

There has been too much destruction of knowledge simply because someone else disagrees with it. In a civilised world, there is room for all knowledge and the truth will eventually emerge triumphant over prejudice. If we do not believe that, then there is no hope for us. We might as well resort to living as wild animals.

Bildung ist wichtig, vor allem wenn es gilt, Vorurteile abzubauen. Wenn man schon ein Gefangener seines eigenen Geistes ist, kann man wenigstens dafür sorgen, dass die Zelle anständig möbliert ist.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Douglass, who often drew comparisons between Jews and blacks, noted that the "Jew is hated in Russia because he is thrifty," while in America the "Negro meets no resistance when on a downward course. It is only when he rises in wealth, intelligence and manly character that he brings upon himself the heavy hand of persecution.

a ban on a Coney Island attraction known as "Negro Ball Dodging," in which whites hurled baseballs at Black men's heads as they appeared in the openings of a cloth or wooden facade.

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

People talk about anal sex as though it's the be-all and end-all of gay identity.

One of the greatest bores on earth is the Anti-Semite, and for him, at least, the show should be a liberal instruction. He will be disappointed to find no examples of those peculiar knives used in the ritual murders of young boys ...'.

Others such as Baden-Powell and Kipling were concerned that western civilisation would dissolve if its white blood was thinned.

When the more lurid popular newspapers in England mentioned men in women's clothing 'nigger-dancing' at Chelsea parties, the 'blame' was laid on the frontline custom of soldiers donning dresses for troop shows.

Beamish had seen the government as dominated by Jews, with Rufus Isaacs, Sir Alfred Mond and Edwin Montagu as Lloyd George's advisors; Britain was now ruled by a 'Jewalition' and Jews were responsible for a quarter of the war's casualties.

In case you've forgotten, that election made the hatred of Jews in this country socially respectable.

Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.