Quotes About Prejudice

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.

Here we must first of all resist all wrong, where truth or righteousness suffers violence or need, and dare make no distinction of persons, as some do, who fight most actively and busily against the wrong which is done to the rich, the powerful, and their own friends; but when it is done to the poor, or the despised or their own enemy, they are quiet and patient.

Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Bad logic was an early warning sign for prejudice.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

La carga del racismo resulta más pesada para quienes sufren el desprecio de sus supuestos superiores.

Cuando un pueblo empieza a creer que el color de su piel o la forma de la nariz garantizan su futura preeminencia, están generalmente contribuyendo a cavar su propia tumba.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.

More interesting is another cultural connection this reveals: that unpopular, controversial or just plain different views when voiced by a woman are taken as indications of her stupidity. It is not that you disagree, it is that she is stupid: 'Sorry, love, you just don't understand.

it doesn't much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it's simply the fact that you're saying it.

For a start it doesn't much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it's simply the fact that you're saying it. And that matches the detail of the threats themselves

Raymond Yellow Thunder, a gentle, sober Pine Ridge elder; he was attacked by some white racists who stripped him naked from the waist down, forced him to dance at gunpoint, and then beat him to death—just for the fun of it.

From now on, I'm telling everyone I meet I'm in insurance. Or I'm a car dealer. Better yet—a Republican. That way, when they accuse me of doing the Devil's work, at least there will be some validity to their claims.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

He [Arthur Miller] wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.