Quotes About Prejudice

My own experiences as a woman tell me it's very possible to be mistaken for monstrous when one is only doing as men do: providing for and defending oneself.

We soon got the idea that 'Italian' meant something inferior, and a barrier was erected between children of Italian origin and their parents. This was the accepted process of Americanization," Covello reflected in his memoir The Heart Is the Teacher. "We were becoming Americans by learning how to be ashamed of our parents.

Becoming American meant hearing slurs that now defined you and your people: dago, wop, guinea, spaghetti bender.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

People are sometimes really different from what you first think. You have to give them a chance.

AUNT SHADIE: I see you - and don't worry, you're not white. ROSE: I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English. AUNT SHADIE: White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.

The sports page told me that the New Jersey Niggers had beaten the Boston Micks. Some player on the Houston Hebes had accused the San Antonio Spics of dropping their last game to get a higher draft pick. The league was expanding to Toronto, and since they had already honored African Americans, Irish Americans, Jewish Americans, and Hispanic Americans, they wanted to name a team to honor Native Americans. They

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.