Quotes About Prejudice

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

She was just in the process of proving them all desperately wrong. But at this phase, the all-male society of bitheads that made up the power structure of Black Sun Systems said that the face problem was trivial and superficial. It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.

Oh come on, you did it yourself when you saw the billboard at the airport. 'Ugh! Blue hair! How tasteless!' When you did that, you identified, you categorized that character as belonging to the Other. And once you have done that, attacking it, murdering it, becomes easier. Perhaps even an urgent need.

Then he nodded at a work party of Hispanic men busy heaving shattered drywall and rolls of nasty old carpet into huge rolling bins for disposal. "And those guys are from the sidewalk in front of Home Depot. If my higher-ups knew . . ." He shook his head.

At first the protesters gave him mean looks for driving a huge gas-guzzling dually until they saw through the glass that he was a person of color and then they didn't know where to direct their moral indignation.

Odessa Jones probably had ancestors who, like him, were rootless white trash, but who had picked up rifles and gone North to fight the Yankees anyway, not because they believed in slavery but because they were incensed that the Northerners refused to stay at home and mind their own business.

Sometimes we call those girls sluts. Do you think she had a boyfriend when she was eight?

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?

While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?