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Quotes About Prejudice

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
~ Bette Davis
You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.
~ Chris Rock
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
~ Ida B. Wells
How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.
~ Daniel O'Connell
Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.
~ Albert Einstein
The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman
~ Hattie McDaniel
It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.
~ Jennifer Lopez
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
~ Amiri Baraka
Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.
~ Fernand Point
My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.
~ Kanye West
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.
~ Robert M. Hensel
You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.
~ Pee Wee Reese
Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.
~ Oscar Micheaux
We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
~ Wesley Snipes
If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.
~ Esther Peterson
I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
~ Ed Sheeran
Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
~ Rebecca West
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
~ George Berkeley
May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.
~ Michael Jackson
I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it
~ Albert Pike
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.
~ Anna Quindlen
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
~ Harper Lee