Quotes About Prejudice

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

we played Indian music—grass dance songs and powwow stuff—the marshals thought these were our death songs and got all worked up, expecting a banzai charge. One

The general rule is that whoever thinks, sings, acts, and speaks Indian is a skin, a full-blood, and whoever acts and thinks like a white man is a half-blood or breed, no matter how Indian he looks.

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

I realized there were assumptions we made about people, and once we did, that was all we could see

The human race has always found a group to marginalize--every culture, every time, every race.

There's one rule for the men and another for us,

What kind of person hates dogs? What's wrong with him? That's an automatic swipe left.

and certainly unchristian, to hate someone for the color of his skin, yet such trivial things can change the pattern of a life.

Inferior people often despise those who are different," Adam said calmly. "It's the only way they can feel superior.

ones who had never met us but confidently

Degas, the most conservative of the group, was adamantly anti-Dreyfus and adamantly anti-Semitic as well.

Renoir, as it turned out, was also deeply anti-Semitic.

Like almost every other colored person, I couldn't tell the difference because we'd been going through a "depression" all our lives.

Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.

Lo conoces? ?dijo Reg. ?No. Me he equivocado. ?Yo diría que es un marica total.

it was wonderful to see how freedom and equality elevate men, and the same negro who perhaps in Tennessee would have cowered like a beaten child or dog beneath an American's uplifted hand, would face him boldly here, and by equal courage and superior physical strength cow his old oppressor.

I hardened my heart against all the Bennets. - Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weakness.

I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get really thin. Who worries about bulimics? They're just gross.

Just because we talk slow doesn't mean we think slow, others point out. On the East Coast they seem to think there's something funny about riding around in a pickup truck. Well in the Deep South, we don't think it's all that natural to hurdle through the dark in a crowded subway.

The first thing the therapist asked me was, 'Are you here because you're depressed?' I said, 'Not at all--I'm here because I'm Southern.'" Anne Herndon

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.