Quotes About Prejudice

And whether my lack of friends and visitors was due not to my father's strictness but due to people's wariness of someone who wasn't born like a normal girl and who, if the peophecy was correct, wouldn't live a normal woman's life.

Sometimes, people can also project "snobbish thoughts." They do not have to make offensive and belittling remarks but their actions project negative thoughts that you are stupid, uncultured, useless or that you cannot be trusted. People with deep-seated feelings of inferiority but having a limited degree of success may feel the need to psychologically chop others down. Some people belonging to the so-called "upper social class" also do this.

Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English...?

A girl like me gets stopped at immigration.

I thought there'd be some black people." "Hitler will only fight them in separate units. He's a snob.

Ä°f you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness? That is why people do not like us refugees. It is because they only know the tragic parts of our life, so they think we are tragic people.

Truly, this is the one thing that people from your country and people from my country agree on. They say, That refugee girl is not one of us. That girl does not belong. That girl is a halfling, a child of an unnatural mating, an unfamiliar face in the moon.

Some aweful things happened to a Negro kid named Emmett Till, and I was right in the middle of it,smack in the heart of crazy, senseless hatred.

Does anyone in this room have it?" "No, Chris, no one here has it." "How do you know?" "Because the mark was dark skin. Negroes are the descendants of Cain." I didn't have my civil-rights sensibilities yet, but I was starting to get a bad feeling about God....

racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

Because you're not a handsome young man." "Well, neither is he!

In the same way that it makes sense for the airport security screeners to give my father extra scrutiny every time he flies because his skin is brown and his first name is Muhammad?

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.'

Black crime tends to be stupid, not crazy.When you hear on the news that somebody chopped off his girlfriend's head, drank her blood, and used her toes to play pool, chances are it was a white guy. An old lady kicked downstairs for her welfare check? A black guy. Someone cut out the old lady's eyes and used them as knickknacks? Definitely a white guy.

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

90% of U.S. mass shootings are committed by white people aged 14-56. For some reason I've never ONCE heard a white person called a terrorist.

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

I wouldn't want to be summarily exterminated by aliens who judged the whole human race on the behavior of Charles Manson, for example

How easily the mind can be turned to hate from a place of fear.

he doesn't approve but will deal with it later, "is that what they're doing? Asking for handouts?" "They just want to be treated fairly," a kid in the back says. "But what does that mean? And where does it end?" another kid asks. As others join the conversation, Megan turns in her seat and squints at Molly, as if noticing her for the first time. "An Indian, huh. That's cool," she whispers. "Like Molly Molasses, right?

Luego un patán mexicano le hizo un bombo, y mírala ahora, es criada. —Él era dominicano —murmura Molly. —Da lo mismo. Esos ilegales son todos iguales, ¿no? Molly

The night of the fire, the night they took me in, I could hear Mrs. Schatzman in her bedroom, fretting with her husband about what to do with me. "I didn't ask for this," she hissed, the words as distinct to my ears as if she'd been in the same room. "Those Irish! Too many children in too small a space. The only surprise is that this kind of thing doesn't happen more.