Quotes About Prejudice

Jesus asks the Samaritan woman at the well, 'Rax me a drap watter, will ye?' and she replies, 'What! A Jew lik ye seekin a drink o a Samâritan like mysel?' (John 4: 7–9)

Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.

He read about humanitys age-old racial struggles. Had it really been less than half a millennium since humans contrived gigantic, fatuous lies about each other simply because of pigment shades, and killed millions because they believed their own lies?

This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

I am a bigot. I'm what they called a 'multibigot.' . . . A unibigot is a racist. A multibigot is just a prick.

For Southerners, a white skin was the distinguishing badge of mind and intellect. Black skin was the sign that a given people had been providentially designed to serve as menial laborers, as what Hammond called the "mudsill" class necessary to support every society.

Our own filters and biases cloud our abilities to understand and to communicate effectively. It

One [cop] said he'd enjoyed the fracas. "Them queers have a good sense of humor and really had a good time," he said. His "buddy" protested: "Aw, they're sick. I like nigger riots better because there's more action, but you can't beat up a fairy. They ain't mean like blacks, they're sick. But you can't hit a sick man.

One police officer tried to pick a fight with passing gay men by repeatedly challenging them, saying, "Start something, faggot; just start something. I'd like to break your ass wide open." When one man finally turned and said, "What a Freudian comment, Officer!" the cop attacked the man and arrested him, placing him in a patrol wagon to be taken to jail.

And maybe one day people will accept each other for who they are and not which race they're born to," I said. He gave me the classic Walter look, the one that says, "You may be the adult, but who do you think you're kidding?

Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?' 'Do I look like an oxymoron to you?' 'An oxymormon.

And who would choose to be gay? Who would choose to pit themselves against all odds and make life as difficult as possible if it were really a matter of choice or sexual "preference"? Not too many people I know.

Why do people feel the need to put labels on people?

It is the Jews and not us that everyone is against," he wrote. "If the Jews would keep their silly mouths shut they could buy up the whole country.

I'm not interested in teaching books by women... Usually at the beginning of the semester a hand shoots up and someone asks why there aren't any women writers in the course. I say I don't love women writers enough to teach them, if you want women writers go down the hall. What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chekhov, Tolstoy. Real guy-guys. Henry Miller. Philip Roth.

And, for the everyday party members, it was, as the cheerful rhyme of the time went, 'Wenn die Olympiade vorbei, schlagen wir die Juden zu Brei' – 'When the Olympics are over, we will beat the Jews to a pulp'. It was open season again.

We modern-day humans tend to exaggerate our differences. The results of such exaggeration are often catastrophic. Between war, slavery, imperialism and sheer day-to-day racist oppression, the last several centuries have seen so much human suffering justified by minor differences in human appearance that we can easily forget just how minor these differences really are.

Which begs the question: how many degrees of separation are there between an anti-Semite and a politically correct anti-Christian?

I'm an American,' Kabuo cut in. 'Just like anybody. Am I calling you a Nazi, you big Nazi bastard? I killed men who looked just like you - pig-fed German bastards. I've got their blood on my soul, Carl, and it doesn't wash off very easily. So don't you talk to me about Japs, you big Nazi son of a bitch.

One of their best customers was an executive at Texaco, and one day Harry Ferkauf casually asked him about the possibility of a summer job for his son. "Harry, you know how I feel about you and Gene," the man replied, "but Texaco doesn't hire Jews." From that day Gene Ferkauf knew that if he was to be a success, he would have to do it on his own; the world's great companies were not interested in the likes of him.

If slavery was justified on the ground that masters were white while slaves were black, Lincoln warned, "By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a fairer skin than your own." If it was defended on the ground that masters were intellectually the superiors of blacks, the same logic applied: "By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with an intellect superior to your own." The

The bigotry of theologians [is] a malady which seems almost incurable.

It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations of the intellectual faculties: it is no less contrary to good taste; nor has it less influence to corrupt our sentiment of beauty. It belongs to good sense to check its influence in both cases.