Quotes About Prejudice

Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you.

Remember the M.S. St. Louis?" Jo nodded. It felt like every week of Hebrew school they'd gotten lessons on the Holocaust, including the story of the ship of nine hundred Jewish refugees that had been turned away from the United States in 1939 because the government believed the passengers were spies. "I've told you what it was like for me as a girl. Kids calling me names. Throwing things at me. And nobody

When in Jim Crow days police departments were totally white, blacks especially resented the universal contempt shown by police toward all African-Americans, officers almost always using their authority to demand deference from blacks. An African-American, regardless of his economic or educational status, who failed to address a police officer with due deference became an obvious target for police reprisals.

Darwinists Taught Human Females Are Inferior to Males Introduction Areview of the prominent late-19th-century writings reveals that a major plank of early evolution theory was the belief that women were intellectually and physically inferior to men.

they believe the "Negro race" is less evolved than Caucasians, and less worthy as humans. The existence of Pygmies, evolutionists felt, made a lie of the Genesis teaching that all men are brothers, all descendants of Adam and Eve. What further proof did they need than a living, breathing, evolutionary link who was clearly not the equal of white men but was more than just a monkey?

If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people.

For the life of him, he couldn't figure why these East Enders called themselves black. He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. But never licorice, which, to him, was real black.

What else would you expect? Whites never go inside black's homes. Much less inside their thoughts and feelings. And blacks are just as ignorant of whites. What white kid could hate blacks after spending five minutes in the Beale's house? And what bleak kid could hat whites after answering Mrs. Pickwell's dinner whistle? But the East Enders stayed in the east and the West Enders stayed in the west, and the less they knew about each other, the more they invented.

People prefer to avoid confronting deformity and when they do it's only for kicks.

No big corporation would promote a hunchback.

But hatreds of large groups of people must have been the most valuable of all. I could barely imagine the prize earned by the person who managed to inculcate in all blond, blue-eyed people a long-lasting hatred of dark ones.

They're all blackface caricatures.

she loathed all the IM and texting abbreviations and acronyms. She was a snob like that

He had no skills or smarts or education to distinguish him, which made him just the sort to be taken with the notion that he belonged to a master race

but these talents could not make up for the fact that she did not possess a fair complexion, and so a string of men had rejected her to her face.

No man wants a woman who dresses like a dishwasher.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.