Quotes About Prejudice

Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.

But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once--my father had six--and talked about escalators, indoor plumbing, and the various laws of the land, he did not warn us that I would be told by American teenagers that I should go back to Africa.

This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whole cloth, new hatreds that have bred unprecedented acts of brutality.

The effect of his appearance on the world was profound. He walked through the city not as a poor Tenderloin kid, his baggy clothes shrouding him with negative assumptions, but as Rupert, the preppy cartoon bear, who was welcome anywhere. He became someone the adults he encountered—at his high school, at the mosque, at any store he entered—trusted and wanted around.

It is as though they simply cannot contemplate the notion of a short, slight man who dresses and moves like a popular (mis)conception of a homosexual being attractive to millions of women.

The left's obsession with judging us on immutable characteristics is what will eventually reach a tipping point and turn neighbor against neighbor, dividing America . . . and beyond.

This is a prime example of the left's soft bigotry of low expectations.

progressives see racism, sexism, and discrimination everywhere, except where it actually exists.

That's not to say America doesn't have issues with prejudice and discrimination. Do white supremacists exist? Yes. Do black, Jew, and Hispanic haters exist? Yes. But are these people fringe and irrelevant? Hell yeah. They have no institutional power. And that's exactly how it should be.

I understand some of the committee people, despite their official positions, are not very friendly toward gays and lesbians.

We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it.

We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it." I

Good Lord, boy. I don't talk business with a woman. They don't have the sense for it.

I guess it comes down to greed. You don't pay folks, you make more money. That and thinking one race wasn't as good as another.

ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.

There're many things to love in this country. The skinheads are not one of them.

But hang on a minute. Since when was 'random' associated with colour and 'definite' with drawing? Since when did drawing and colour become ciphers for order and chaos? Perhaps it doesn't matter: the prejudice is in place.

it's obvious to anyone that 5,000 golf buddies in an incestuous CEO caste can much more plausibly connive in secret with parasitic Wall Streeters, casino moguls, Mafiosi, "ex"-KGB agents and inheritance brats. The very folks who want populist rallies pouring hate at both people of color and smart folks.

There is no such thing as a social crack user.

It's the easiest thing in the world to judge things by appearances, Ce'Nedra," she said, "and it's usually wrong.

People hate people, not freedom.

The Great White Male is rap's Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, its Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy.

Troeltsch's so dumb he thinks a manila folder's a Filipino contortionist.

Miss Leary, do you mean to insinuate that I should go encouraging homo-sex-uality amongst these corpses?