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Quotes About Prejudice

Woman is the lesser man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
~ Ann Beattie
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
~ Arthur Smith
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.
~ Blake Judd
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"
~ Charles Lamb
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
~ Charley Pride
If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!
~ Chris Rock
White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.
~ Chris Rock
Men never believe a woman can do anything.
~ Christina Stead
If you're a racist, right now, in 2011... You just look like a retard, man.
~ Christopher Titus
I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."
~ Chuck D
Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white counterparts.
~ Cornell William Brooks
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.
~ Cynthia Heimel
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
~ Damian Lewis
The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.
~ Danielle Steel
If there's one thing that makes a man sick, it's to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.
~ Daphne du Maurier
In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
~ David Duchovny
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
~ David Lloyd George
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
~ Don Cheadle
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
~ Edmund Burke