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Quotes About Prejudice

Si una joven tiene belle­za, nacimiento, educación, ingenio, sentido, modales, modestia y todo ello en forma extremada, pero no tiene dinero, no es na­die y es igual que si lo necesitara todo, porque el dinero es lo único que recomienda ahora a una mujer. Los hombres tienen todo el juego en su mano.
~ Daniel Defoe
Afernadome a un chico que todo el mundo sabe que es un tarado, un bastardo, un imbecil y un cabron
~ Daniel Handler
People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.
~ Daniel Keyes
How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence.
~ Daniel Keyes
complain and share certain stories—for instance, the one that Mrs. Wilk eventually confided to my mother about how, yes, she and the other Polish girls of her town, Rzeszów, had been taught to hate the Jews, but they didn't know any better—and also would gossip about the pani, the rich neighbor ladies who did not share their meals with their cleaning ladies; after this time, during which the two women
~ Daniel Mendelsohn
How easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that conclusion.
~ Daniel Quinn
I don't think women are better than men, but I do think that men are worse than women.
~ Louis C.K.
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
~ Belva Ann Lockwood
Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
~ Claude Pepper
A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.
~ Noel Ignatiev
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
~ Queen Latifah
The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
~ Larry Gelbart
Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
I don't want people to think about my age. Notbecause I don't want them to know my age, I just don't want them to think about it, I don't want itto be a factor.
~ Paula Scher
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
~ Samuel Johnson
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
~ Richard Dawkins
I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.
~ Madonna Ciccone
It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.
~ Jonny Lang
Chinese people age overnight.
~ Karl Pilkington
I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
~ Larry Gelbart
I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.
~ Leslie Jones
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Most women have no characters at all.
~ Alexander Pope