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Quotes About Prejudice

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.
~ Tupac Shakur
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
~ Isaac Newton
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
~ Charles Lamb
All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.
~ Cynthia Heimel
I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
~ David Bailey
It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.
~ David Hume
If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.
~ Frederick Delius
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
~ Lord Acton
People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.
~ Marjane Satrapi
All men are potential rapists.
~ Nandita Das
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
~ Nelson Mandela
The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.
~ Paul O'Grady
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
~ Albert Einstein
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.
~ Alex Hay
When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
~ Alice Hamilton
They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
~ Pablo Picasso
Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
~ Patricia Schroeder
Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.
~ John Cho
Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
~ John Jay Chapman
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
~ Lara St. John
It is a sin to judge any man by his post
~ Saint Augustine
A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.
~ George Sand