Quotes About Prejudice

The vamp in McMann's stared at me. I guess he didn't like the Goth look. Most of them don't; somehow they think I'm making fun of them. Which I totally am.

Well, he said, I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage. He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.

Oh, come on. A vamp marrying a human gets the fanged ones all upset, and Eve made herself look like the ultimate fang-anger to all the humans by putting a ring on one, so what did you expect exactly? Flowers and parades? This is Texas. We're still figuring out how to spell tolerance.

one thing I know about people from deep personal experience: they're happy to jump on the hate train if it makes them feel like fucking heroes.

And almost never young men of any race, even though they can and do go missing too.

People are like that, judging you before they know you.

Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn

love is love, attraction is what it is, and why should the arbitrary assignment of genital parts determine whether or not you want to be with a person?

You have to understand they're operating from a place of fear, like Fox News viewers.

If a Jew tell a lie because the truth of his faith cannot be tolerated by those around him, shouldn't one then prosecute the world rather than the Jew?

You name a country, and I'll tell you about a time it became obsessed with killing Jews.

Marrano" was the Spanish word for "pig." Pretty much sums up Catholic Spain's view of Jews.)

I am afraid, monsieur, you will have to kill me first, and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock.

People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning in their lives, and to have someone to hate.

When you're trying to figure out who…you've got to keep in mind the roots of violence.

I hate the people who think we're just part of the great unwashed

Only old retired coots and gold-digging bimbos live in Florida.

Oh, there's nothing worse than those damned, Pope-kissing, potato-sucking Irish.

Men seemed to assume that because they could change their own oil and hook up a TV by themselves, they were naturally superior to women.

The people who hate us can't see through the wall.

I had grown up in the 1950s, with radio and television and Reader's Digest , and I had assumed that everyone around us was pretty much alike.

Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their Amens and seen them gather on a porch or two afterward with their lemonade and piety, but he knew if he ever showed up on their steps, starving or injured, the only response he'd get to a plea for human kindness would be the amen of a shotgun pointed in his face.

Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were.

Call them gooks, call them niggers, call them kikes, micks, spics, wops, or frogs, call them whatever you want as long as you call them something—anything—that removes one layer of human being from their bodies when you think of them. That's the goal. If you can do that, you can get kids to cross oceans to kill other kids, or you can get them to stay right here at home and do the same thing.