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Quotes About Prejudice

One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You sound like you're mentally deficient. And possibly Chinese.
~ Unknown
Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I never thought it was fair that anatomy decided what my brain was fit for.
~ C.J. Redwine, Defiance
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
~ Issa Rae
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
~ Walter Scott
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
~ Susan Sontag
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
~ Russell Lynes
I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.
~ Pat Conroy, South of Broad
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
~ Anne Lamott
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
~ Horace Greeley
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
~ Margaret Mead
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
~ Oscar Wilde
Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.
~ Albert Einstein
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
~ Samuel Davies
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'di..', and 'Colon'.
~ Chris Rock
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
~ Mark Twain
Always be wary of the Software Engineer who carries a screwdriver.
~ Unknown
Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
~ George Mikes
There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be leglislation against it.
~ Unknown
Every gay guys GPS system would tell him to Go straight. haha
~ Will Ferrell
Women are good for 70 things, sandwiches and 69.
~ Unknown
Men are fast to call lady's whore but must faster to put their manhood in one.
~ Unknown