Quotes About Prejudice

On the track, you're Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you're in the dressing rooms, you are nothing more than a dirty Negro.

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.

As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.

The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world.

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

I'm like Will Rogers, I never met a man I didn't like... well, Eichmann maybe.

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."