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Quotes About Prejudice

No querer a las mujeres, cuando se es hombre, es una actitud. No querer a los hombres, cuando se es mujer, es una patología.
~ Virginie Despentes
Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía.
~ Virginie Despentes
You can't plead tolerance for gays by saying that they're just like everyone else. Tolerance is something we should extend to people who are not like everyone else.
~ Unknown
It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.
~ Unknown
The root of heterosexual fear of male homosexuality is in the fact that anyone might be gay. Straight men aren't threatened by a flamboyant faggot because they know they aren't like that; they're threatened by a guy who's just like they are who turns out to be queer.
~ Unknown
No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it
~ Unknown
American society has willfully deleted the fact of homosexual behavior from its mind, laundering things as they come along, in order to maintain a more comfortable illusion. The censors removed it; the critics said, "Well, look! It isn't there"; and anyone who still saw it was labeled a pervert
~ Unknown
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
~ Vivien Leigh
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~ Vladimir Sorokin
Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.
~ Voltaire
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
~ Voltaire
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.
~ Voltaire
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
~ Voltaire
Stella, Tinkerbell, and Emmet. Why on earth would a woman want three cats?
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Teetotalers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
~ W. H. Davies
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
~ W. H. Davies
I cannot but conclude 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.
~ Unknown
The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?
~ W.E.B. DuBois
You could be disqualified for a job [at Harvard] if you were either smart or Jewish or Keynesian. So what chance did this smart, Jewish, Keynesian have?
~ Paul Samuelson
There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.
~ Eva Figes
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
~ Gerry Spence
What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?
~ Michael Bloomberg
But don't we all deserve a chance before we're judged?
~ Emory R. Frie, Neverland
Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg