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Quotes About Prejudice

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.
~ Harry Segall
The inferiority of women is man-made.
~ Helen Keller
In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.
~ Helen Mirren
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
~ James A. Baldwin
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
~ Jane Austen
I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier's uniform.
~ Joan Nestle
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
~ John Tillotson
Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit
~ Len Hutton
I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.
~ Doris Lessing
I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.
~ Elizabeth Banks
After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
~ Ellen Glasgow
I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.
~ Emily Remler
The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.
~ Manisha Sinha
Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.
~ Michael Steele
Every man is a potential rapist.
~ Nandita Das
I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
~ Natalie Imbruglia
For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
~ Plato
The only thing worse than women are women who tell me I'm a misogynist.
~ John Avery
Of all the wonderful things that men and women share, shoes, tragically, are not one of them. This is because men lack the shoe chromosome.
~ Mimi Pond
In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?
~ Andrej Pejic
New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'
~ Bill Maher
Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
~ Camille Paglia
Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.
~ Camille Paglia
One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.
~ Malcolm X