Quotes About Prejudice

I think, look, you have to be aware of the language, and you have to be aware a little bit of your own biases if you're going to overcome them.

It seems like racism in the United States is overflowing.

I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

Maybe people overlook me because of the way I talk or the way I look. I don't know.

Oftentimes, I feel like, because of my cisnormative look or my aesthetics, that sometimes my talent might get overlooked.

I think that - this is my personal opinion - but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky.

I think overweight people are lazy and that they are bankrupting the country.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

the Black Legion

1938, Italians from Milan to Naples had opened their newspapers to discover that they were all "pure Aryan Nordics" and that their Jewish colleagues were dangerous aliens. Jews, including die-hard Fascists, were dismissed from all military, university, and government posts. By that fall, Italian Jews were not allowed to have listed phone numbers, presumably because it corrupted the sea of pure Nordic names in the Italian telephone directory.

Professor Ball has a thing about gays. His wife married one.

Sometimes it's the educated people that are the stupidest people.

Them little ol' priests, the things they did? Pooh! No wonder us Indian folk are all the shits.

Jed Lamb might have been a junkman, but he was also a true white man.

White people aren't ready for trust. But some days we have no choice but to take a chance with them.

Henry was in tears. One of the older boys had painted his face black while others held him to the ground. 'You wanna hang round with the boongs,' one of them screamed, 'you're gonna have to be one.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Sabemos desde hace tiempo que los seres humanos sois brutales —dijo la elfa de los ojos verdes con el ceño fruncido—. En otras épocas, al menos teníais la excusa de la ignorancia.

She was a young woman with that pink complexion which made Jimmy Chee wonder why the white men called Indians redskins.

And the white guy, I just barely got a look at him. They all sort of look alike anyway. All I notice is freckles and sunburn.

Chee sank into a sofa, removed his hat, warmed his ears with his hands, and observed what his sociology teacher had called "the privileged class." The professor admitted a prejudice against this class but Chee found them interesting to observe.

You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.