Quotes About Prejudice

They didn't think black people were necessarily good, don't get me wrong, they just thought everyone—regardless of what color they were—was probably an asshole. And to say you were less of an asshole because your skin was lighter was reprehensible to them. It just made you a bigger asshole.

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of "racial tensions" is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.

There were slave traders, Nazis, and Communists who were compassionate in their personal lives, but all of them told, and most of them believed, some great lie that enabled them to participate in a great evil. Black slavery was made possible in large measure by the lie that blacks were innately inferior to whites.

The best way to combat racism is to have blacks and whites relate to one another as individuals, rather than as racial abstractions.... It becomes much harder to make a nasty generalization about another group after you have spent time in the home of one if its members.

One was a full-blooded Negro, the other mixed, with pale skin, thick lips and crinkly hair.

the fact that she completely obscured his view of the road was quite irrelevant since Asian drivers never look where they're going.

People are not born hating each other and wishing to cause harm. It is a learned condition.

He's a Muslim , you know. Um-Nadia's voice is half-warning and half-laughter. Dark as an Egyptian. Ma! Mirielle shouts. Get a grip. Um-Nadia's grinning like it's one of her old jokes. And here is our beautiful Sirine, whiter than this. She takes a bite out of a whole peeled onion as if it were an apple.

I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser

Now they think you're mad; then they thought you were a witch. Cultural mores

While Fergus was possessed of dark good looks and a dashing manner that might well win a young girl's heart, he lacked a few of the things that might appeal somewhat more to conservative Scottish parents, such as property, income, a left hand, and a last name.

You do know that women aren't rational, don't you?" "I do. Neither are men." "Well, you have a point

Frenchman wouldn't seem so dangerous to them. Perhaps. He blinked hard to clear his vision, and was opening his mouth

Women, as he had explained to me at the paddock, have no natural appreciation for horses, and are therefore difficult to talk to.

Lawrence is a bonny man for a Jew, but he's curious.

prejuicio social es un fuerza poderosa, pero se desarma ante la competencia, sobre todo cuando la demanda es urgente y la habilidad no abunda.

STINKING PAPIST

Eejit," Ian said. "What did ye tell her that for? Now she thinks ye're a Jew." Jamie's mouth fell open in shock. "What, me? How, then?" he demanded, looking down at himself. He'd meant his Highland dress, but Ian looked critically at him and shook his head.

I would ask the one thing of ye, lad—let it be the English. Not your ain folk.

Social prejudice is a strong force, but no match for simple competence when skill is in urgent demand and short supply.

I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.

I had to prove that I could understand other aspects of human beings and not just little fat girls.

There is no moral equivalency between people who associate themselves with these KKK and Nazism and those who are opposed to individuals who associate themselves with the KKK and Nazism.

For a lot of Croats, if you're a Serb, they don't want to associate with you. It's just stupid.