Quotes About Prejudice

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.

It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

The word "autism" still conveys a fixed and dreadful meaning to most people—they visualize a child mute, rocking, screaming, inaccessible, cut off from human contact. And we almost always speak of autistic children, never of autistic adults, as if such children never grew up, or were somehow mysteriously spirited off the planet, out of society.

Mary: What are you teaching Him at that public high school of yours, Mrs. McElroy? Joshua: She's teaching Me that this town is the armpit of Western civilization.

When most people see an adult skipping they assume it must be on the way either to or from the asylum.

The 'Declaration of Independence' begins: 'All men are created equal'. What they really meant was 'All men are created equal – unless they happen to be Indian, black or female'!)

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.