Quotes About Prejudice

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

We live in a strange world where people don't try to know who we are, rather they go by, what they think we are!

Ostracism is just another form of racism!

Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the men's room at the Astor!

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.

Prejudice is a belief born from a shortcut to thinking

If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.