Quotes About Prejudice

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.