Quotes About Prejudice

If you act too young, people say you're going through your second childhood. If you act too old, they think you're getting senile and smother you with kindness.

Never trust the French.

We are better than our culture. Load us down with prejudice, equip us with indifference, and we will nevertheless, at the critical moment, cast the nonsense aside and find our true selves.

Be afraid of bombs on the metro. Be afraid of bombs on airplanes. Be afraid of mass murders lurking in the dark. Oh, but don't be afraid of the wrong people (brown and/or Muslim) because if you do, you become worse than the terrorists... you become a racist.

If you believe the media, all Trump voters are mouth-breathers who can barely sign their name.

In 2004 televangelist Jimmy Swaggart announced to his audience, "I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry…. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died…. In case anybody doesn't know, God calls it an abomination.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Why were humans so good at not seeing anyone who didn't fit into their vision of how things should be?

But was it snobbery to feel that someone's world was too different from yours to ever meld, despite what he had felt back among the light and chatter? Was it prejudiced to acknowledge that skin colour did make a difference, simply because it did matter to so many?

I think I'll get a nut roast. Maybe a nut roast is too lesbian?

became a swellhead, a wise guy, an "uppity" nigger. When a white player did it, he had spirit. When a black player did it, he was "ungrateful," an upstart, a

There was a popular saying once that in the North the white man didn't care how close the black man came if he didn't climb too high, and in the South the white man didn't care how high the black man climbed if he didn't come too close.

The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

But it's what the world does to people. It makes some of us feel ugly and it makes some of us look like criminals, like angry fools.

In the stores downtown we're always followed around just because we're brown.

You know how many more rich Negroes there'd be if we wasn't all the time trying to pay off some lawyer or bailing a brother out. That's one thing I'm truly guilty of--giving hard-earned money to the man.

Los prejuicios han nacido en ti a falta de luces y, sea razonando, sea sin razonar, hacen que tu conducta sea tan inconsecuente como extraña. Sometido a verdaderos deberes, te impones otros con los que es imposible o inútil cumplir; finalmente, buscas hacerte separar del camino en la persecución del objeto cuya posesión te parece más deseable. Nuestra unión, nuestros vínculos pasan a depender de una voluntad ajena.

Tories rated their colleagues according to which public school they went to; for Labour members the proudest boast was to have been the son of a miner.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

Look at me all flesh and bones, head, arms, and legs, do you see a Monkey in my human flesh, and bones, because I am Black. Oh No No, said the Monkey, I don't talk."

he still thought I was accusing him or calling him to account. He said, "People *do* grow. You may not think much of *me*, but my children will be great!" I said , "They will be black and blind or passing for white and self-blinded. Those are the only choices.

Womenfolk just tend to get lost, he'd always say; it's just a weakness they've got.