Quotes About Prejudice

I figure sometimes that maybe that's why we don't make as much progress as other parts of the nation. People lose so much time from their jobs in lynching other people, and they spend so much money on rope and kerosene and getting likkered-up in advance and other essentials, that there ain't an awful lot of money or man-hours left for practical purposes.

Prejudice," Rickey told the table. "It reflects an attitude of a great many people in this country who don't introspect themselves very closely about their own prejudices. . . . You can't meet it with words. You can't take prejudice straight on. It must be done by proximity. Proximity! The player alongside you. No matter what the skin color or language. Win the game. Win all. Get the championship and the check that goes with it.

Years ago, if a white woman said a Black man looked at her lustfully, he could be hung higher than a magnolia tree in bloom, while a white mob watched joyfully sipping tea and eating cookies," Yusef Salaam's mother reminded readers of the Amsterdam News.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too. [ Existence (1975)]

It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

That's because racism isn't just about hate. We all have biases, even if don't think we do. It's because racism is also about who has power…and who has access to it.

You say you don't see color…but that's all you see. You're so hyperaware of it, and of trying to look like you aren't prejudiced, you can't even understand that when you say race doesn't matter all I hear is you dismissing what I've felt, what I've lived, what it's like to be put down because of the color of my skin.

Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it.

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,wow, check out the brain on that babe.

Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear.

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

There's a difference between bad bi...es and ghetto bi...es.

If you think being gay is a choice, you're considering it.

Being gay is not a choice. Being homophobic is.

If the majority of Americans were gay, people would get beat up for being straight.

I'm sorry but being gay doesnt change ur vocals, you do alot of gay men have this high pitched voice? Do they change it purposely?

Being gay or lesbian is not what some one is. Would you accept being a murderer? A thief? Hmm? Well?

Being gay is something to be ashamed of. That they will never be as good a parent as a heterosexual person. Which is rubbish.

I heard being gay was a pain in the ass...

Why does the black community associate being well dressed with being gay? How stupid

If you believe that being gay is a choice, then you believe that straight people are straight because they chose not to be gay.

You dont go to hell for being gay unless you confess your sin

I still think Ricky Martin being gay is SUCH a waste.