Quotes About Prejudice

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

Racist writing is a craft failure.