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Quotes About Prejudice

What does the delegate propose? To place the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities on the level with the virtuous and good man?" In
~ Charles A. Beard
Only poor people go to jail.
~ Charles Barkley
You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.
~ Charles Barkley
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
~ Charles Barkley
game of deducing a person's character from that person's appearance is an old pastime with racists and with those who seek an advantage over the poor or the ugly, the disabled, or any underrepresented minority.
~ Charles Baxter
They say good girls like bad boys. Opposites attract. Mary loved me, but her family hated me. They thought I was what they used to call shanty Irish, and I guess they thought they were what they used to call lace-curtain Irish. Or maybe they saw something in me; that as hard as I was trying I was still too unpredictable for their Mary. Mary
~ Charles Brandt
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,They damn those authors whom they never read.
~ Charles Churchill
By making stupid people feel better about their stupidity. By allowing bigots to think they were justified in making anti-Semitic statements, saying that it was OK to hate women, to be aggrieved about people of color, about immigrants.
~ Charles Cumming
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Hitler not from a woman is born, but from the men bitterness.(Hitler n'est pas né d'une femme, Mais de l'amertume des hommes)
~ Charles de Leusse
Hitler not from a woman is born : he is the child of the men bittemess. (Hitler n'est pas né d'une femme, Mais de l'amertume des hommes)
~ Charles de Leusse
No elevator of progress with wells of prejudices. (Pas d'ascenseur de progrès - Avec puits de préjugés.)
~ Charles de Leusse
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
~ Charles Dickens
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.
~ Charles Dickens
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
~ Charles Dickens
People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are
~ Charles Dickens
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice favour runs in favour of two.
~ Charles Dickens
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.
~ Charles Dickens
Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. 'Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who, having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?
~ Charles Dickens