Quotes About Prejudice

My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.

she hated and detested Nicholas with all the narrowness of mind and littleness of purpose worthy a descendant of the house of Squeers.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

What's the matter with you guys? The sight of blonde hair knocks you three rungs down on the evolutionary ladder.

Prejudice is weighing the facts with your thumb on the scales.

We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

White men, whether they are the majority or the minority, must find a way to purge themselves completely of racism, or face an ultimate fateful confrontation which will shake the very foundation of civilization.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination.

He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow.

Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight.

Sometime perhaps you will learn that prejudice often blinds people to some of the rarest things in life. I often wonder if we don't miss out that way in trying to learn about God and things of the other world.

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.

There's nothing worse than a label to cement people's loyalties.

Seven genders – and all of them perceived as monolithic. Everyone stereotyped at a glance. Seven pigeon-holes instead of two isn't progress.

I have always been intrigued by this obsession with so-called black-on-black violence, as if black-on-white violence was somehow more acceptable. And why had no one ever described what happened in Northern Ireland or in Bosnia, Kosovo, et al. with its vicious brutality as examples of white-on-white violence? There it was just violence - then why black-on-black violence?

I have to hear this all the time in England: "Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm." Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country.

For thirty years you couldn't possibly make it unless you were white, sleek, nicely spoken, and phony to your toenails—suddenly now you could be black, purple, moronic, delinquent, diseased, or almost anything on earth, and you could still clean up.

Ya sabes, el racismo y el clasismo empieza por el olfato.

En nuestra clase social pareciera que solo al llegar a ancianos dejamos de ser «niños» o «niñas». Es común escuchar «deberías andar con ese niño» o «esa niña es increíble» al hablar de hombres y mujeres que rebasan los cuarenta años. La absoluta infantilización del lenguaje que engendra adolescentes cuarentones.

Zelda is black and fat. Yolanda is Mexican and homely. Antonio is a cross-eyed Dominican. Duane is of mixed race and has no teeth. Lucille is albino. Elisa is mute. To Fleming, they are all the same: unfit for other work and therefore easy to trust.

The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal.