Quotes About Prejudice

Although I had long since stopped regarding myself as a Christian, I still thought of Christians as being basically decent, tolerant easy-going types like myself, while Muslims I'd always thought of as, well, let's say a bit prone to fundamentalism.

I thought you were Mexican." "If you're Mexican, you're part Indian. And part Spaniard. Part eagle. Dog. Snake. Parts from whatever no one else wants." Coyote

I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix)

Redheads are a variant that survived, a color minority, though not a skin color precisely, not a race, but still subject to identification by the wary eyes and wagging tongues of the majority.

No redheads, though, are plain.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

You don't know nothing about me. Or the life I've had. You're so quick to judge, like all the other women. Women are the worst, you know. Worse than men. I think it's because, secretly, they all know in their hearts they could be me.

It's how it all begins. "You Jews" this, "you Jews" that. And when you have lumped all Jews together, you can justify anything you do to them. There are no longer good Jews, bad Jews, clever Jews, stupid Jews, old Jews, young Jews. There are just Jews. But I am a German, just like you, whether you like it or not.

He who don't like me greasy shan't have me nice.

Yes. Miss Halfwolf scares me a lot. But that doesn't make her a monster. Don't be like the Witches, Master Ren. They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.

They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.

Even before the Civil War, outsiders from Catholic Ireland and from Asia had been made to feel unwelcome in "the land of the free." And this was to say nothing of the black population, whose bondage remained a gross contradiction to the lofty sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.

The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful thing. But, when you mention two guys in love, they forget all that and freak out.

Just as there is evil in the world, so is there good. Despite those filled with prejudice, hate, and intolerance, acceptance and understanding are becoming more commonplace. The ignorance and lies of the past are disappearing and a new world stands before us. Friendship, understanding, and compassion are more powerful things than hate, and will one day lead us all to a better place...

We give people political labels, sexual labels, and religious labels. But in the process, we strip them of their individuality and complexity. Prejudice is pre-judging. It's assuming that bad stories end badly, but Jesus is in the business of turning bad beginnings into happily ever afters. ... God cannot give up on you. It's not in His nature. His goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life. All you have to do is turn around. All you have to do is crash the party!

Growing up in the U.S means that there are people out there who hate you just because you are what you are..be it black or rich, Jewish or Irish Catholic, whatever. Anything different from the bigot. There are some small minded people out there who have got to think they are better than anyone else. So it goes.

Stereotyping didn't become stereotyping without being rooted in fact. - Petra Reuter

Senior faculty nowadays similarly squirm when former 'dunderheads' return to campus to lecture on their prizewinning screenplay or to cut the ribbon for a building funded by their entrepreneurial acumen. How did such dullards metamorphose into geniuses?

I don't much care for intolerant right-wing Republicans, but these folks taught me I don't much care for intolerant left-wing Democrats either.

As French novelist and essayist Jean Genet once wrote about prison, "it is in this place that racism reaches its cruelest pitch . . . in this place that racism becomes a kind of concentrate of racism.

In other words, individual white citizens today, even anti-racist ones, can be very much against racism, even conquering visible marks of prejudice in their personal lives, and still tolerate prisons as the racist structural formation they exhibit in society with its long history of white supremacist social formation. Whatever

Structural racism works—if I could summarize all too briefly—by stereotyping peoples and then routinizing socially experienced outcomes that are violent and destructive, often exposing members of racially-marked groups to slow or sudden death.

This is how planet Earth earned its shameful reputation of undervaluing people by ethnicity, religion, gender, and whatnot. At some point man's impression was labeled the voice of God. But man's impression always contained the blind flaw of humanness.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.