Quotes About Prejudice

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.

Because people fear those who are different. And fear can make people do stupid things.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.

Look around you at the people you've been taught to hate, because hate is just a cloak that hides fear.

People hate what they know and fear what they don't.

Don't just a book by it's cover. You never know what you'll find underneath if you just give it a try.

Why do some people think being gay 'is a choice' are you f*cking kidding me? Like one day people just decide, from now on I'm going to be gay...

Do not judge me until you know me, Do not underestimate me until you have challenged me, AND do not talk about me until you have talked to me.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype. When people I've never met say I should act more like myself, I feel like they're really saying 'act more like how I stereotype you to be, so I can feel comfortable.'

No doubt these geographical regions and the historic past that injected forest glades and Gothic steeples into their names had to a certain extent shaped their faces, their minds, and their prejudices, but had survived in them only as does the cause in the effect—that is, as something that can be unearthed by the intelligence but in no way perceived by the imagination.

which there was already installed a lady with a massive face, old and ugly, with a masculine expression, very much in her Sunday best, who was reading the Revue des Deux Mondes. Notwithstanding her commonness, she was eclectic in her tastes, and I found amusement in asking myself to what social category she could belong; I at once concluded that she must be the manager of some large brothel, a procuress on holiday. Her face, her manner, proclaimed the fact aloud.

Those who have minds have no regard for birth.

It is quite likely that this Jewish community, like any other, perhaps more than any other, could boast of many charms, qualities, and virtues. The enjoyment of these, however, was restricted to its members. The fact was they were disliked; and this, once they became aware of it, became a proof in their eyes of anti-Semitism, against which they ranged themselves in a dense phalanx, closing ranks in the face of a world that was, in any case, of no mind to join their group.

anything with a whiff of redneck or white trash upsets me so much that I hope never to be close to any of its components.

By virtue of his celebrity, he would be coddled by worshipful cops, pumped up by star-fucking attorneys, indulged by a spineless judge, and adored by jurors every bit as addled by racial hatred as their counterparts on the Rodney King jury. O. J. Simpson slaughtered two innocent people, and he walked free—right past the most massive and compelling body of physical evidence ever assembled against a criminal defendant. I am not bitter. I am angry.