Quotes About Prejudice

Nei - øøøæææh! BANANARAMA?! Eg like jo heavy, ugh, eg like ikje sånn fittemusikk frå helvete! - Du må åpne opp for nye ting. Du har levd for lenge i det der kukfengselet for lenge og hørt på heavy. I kveld,høre du, ikveld, skal du og meg drikke Cava og høre på Bananarama, for eg elske Banarama og alt di står for!

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

folks generally fear what's different and unknown to them.

It is unfortunate that so many in society choose to see evil where only innocence exists.

A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.

You know what they say: You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks.

In some parts of North-east England, a man would rather kill himself overtaking on a blind bend at seventy miles an hour than drive a hundred yards behind a woman.

He had his very own "little white girl" without taking the hit of her actually being white.

I nazisti non sono mai riusciti ad inculcarmi l'idea che essere ebreo è un peccato.

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

I heard you weren't a SkyWing, Glory, but that doesn't bother me. SkyWings are overrated,

She's a RainWing," he hissed. "She'd laugh at me just as much as any of her tribe, if she'd met me before I found my power.

Yeah," Swordtail said fervently. "HiveWings don't care about anyone but themselves." Cricket flinched, and Blue frowned at Swordtail. "That's really unfair, Swordtail. You don't know what's going on in their hearts. The only HiveWing you know well is Cricket, and she cares a lot.

They were a part of his bones and the bones of every IceWing. We hate NightWings. They stole from us. They are all liars and backstabbers and monsters.

The humans had painted themselves as victims, dragons as barbaric monsters.

It made no sense. Why would a different wing shape, or a slightly different scale color, or antennae, make one dragon superior and another dragon worth nothing?

The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer.

we like to believe that we do bad things because of the situations we are in, but somehow we easily come to the conclusion that others do bad things because they are predisposed to being bad. (Similarly

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.

Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers.

For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with them. I find I can get along very well with Jews or even...' The P of Papists was already formed, and the word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.

Whereas I had not meant anything so illiberal as a national reflexion, of course; only that I hated Papists.

the stigma of severe mental illness leads to prejudice and discrimination. Stigmas are negative and erroneous attitudes about these persons. Unfortunately, stigma's impact on a person's life may be as harmful as the direct effects of the disease. Corrigan, P. W., & Penn, D. L. (1999). Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma. American Psychologist, 54(9), 765–776.