Quotes About Prejudice

I do think women are unfairly judged by their physical appearance, but I don't think it had anything to do with being mixed-race. In my opinion, mixed-race people are the most beautiful.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

Men know that women are an overmatch for them and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men.

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.

Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.

Gender Quotes are social disease.

In women he doesn't trust! He is an atheist.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?

Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off?

You won't shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character, " I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

To a misogynist: To err is woman.

Don't be afraid of marrying the right person even if they come from the wrong background.

I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.

Virulent anti-Semitism is, of course, a staple of militant Islamist ideology.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

People are usually scared of me because of the arrogant character I play. They stare at me with fear that I might just scold them and often run away from me.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.