Quotes About Prejudice

Soon Jews were also removed and excluded from journalism, farming, teaching, and the theater. By 1938, Jews could not practice investment banking or the professions of law and medicine. This combination of segregation and state-sponsored discrimination against Jews mirrors what the Democrats did to African Americans.

Puede que eso fuera la esclavitud del futuro, atar a un negro libre a sus anhelos de blanco.

Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.

We learn nothing from the stereotypes around us, not even that we're all the same.

Were we a fragile unit surrounded by hostile facts? Would I promote ignorance, prejudice and superstition to protect my family from the world?

What the hell does the Jewish Museum know about Guatemalan pricks? This particular prick isn't even circumcised.

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Aren't there male protagonists who race into danger? And I bet you'd call them brave for doing exactly the same thing that a woman gets labeled 'Too Stupid To Live'.

As he started down towards his office, Brunetti thought about how taking a look at one's unconscious motives and prejudices was like walking barefoot through cloudy water: you never knew whether you were going to step on something disgusting or bang your toe into a rock.

prejudice: so comforting until someone noticed

Not for the first time, he cringed when he saw his own prejudices manifest in other people.

You want to know what Classics are? said a drunk Dean of Admissions to me at a faculty party a couple of years ago. I'll tell you what Classics are. Wars and homos.

A poor Negro has at least the excuse of his birth," Edie said. "The poor white has nothing to blame for his station but his own character. Well, of course, that won't do. That would mean having to assume some responsibility for his own laziness and sorry behavior. No, he'd much rather stomp around burning crosses and blaming the Negro for everything than go out and try to get an education or improve himself in any way.

Um, we don't hit women in America." He scowled, and spit out an apple seed. "No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.

If I thought my kid was a bastard I would sure the fuck name him something else.

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

Hate is ignorant. Bigotry is ignorant. So is pride when it is based on things you had no control over. I won't take responsibility, or blame, for things that I did not do. I am not bound or obligated to live a certain way because of the circumstances of my birth. Culture, tradition, and religion are like language, borders, and infrastructure. They predate me. My ancestors don't dictate my actions because I didn't have any say in what they did.

No way. I'm a guy. We can't let chicks drive. It's a form of castration." "Well, pick up your balls. We're leaving.

A cop? You married a bloody cop?" " I married a bloody criminal," Eve muttered, "but nobody ever thinks of that.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

His ability came from being raised in Blackford County, Indiana, where cussing among men was as necessary as church on Sunday. Except, in Wade's case, it was church on Saturday, because Wade's daddy was a religious bigot who hated Jews, Negroes, Catholics, Coca Cola (which represented frivolity and broken dietary laws), F.D.R., city people, country people, and members of his own 7th Day Adventist church.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Mark Twain

Successful people speak words of inclusion rather than words of separation, words of acceptance rather than words of rejection, and words of tolerance rather than words of prejudice.