Quotes About Prejudice

CLOTHES SWITCH How would the story change if the characters were dressed differently—preppy, gangsta rapper-style? ETHNIC/RACE SWITCH What if the characters were given different ethnicities or races? How would that change the story? EMOTION SWITCH

This is a short cut to knowing one another," he explained. "School and college and medical school first, please. Joiner and Vickery are from Groton and Harvard; I'm only from Andover and Yale, so they won't let me stay in the same room with them; but we can keep the door ajar and get some of the air from the high life, now and then.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration.

novels, like racists, tend to be the same wherever you turn," writes William Giraldi,

Others judge you for not what you are, but what they are. Self Judgement is thus more Significant....

Ljudi preziru sve one koji ne uspiju, a mrze one koji se uspnu iznad njih; Navikni se na prezir ako želis mir, ili na mržnju ako pristaneš na borbu...

Onda je otac rekao: pamti, nesre?a je što kod nas niko ne misli da je na pravom mjestu, i svako svakome je mogu?i suparnik; ljudi preziru one koji ne uspiju, a mrze one koji se uspnu iznad njih; navikni se na prezir ako želiš mir, ili na mržnju ako pristaneš na borbu. Ali ne ulazi u okršaj ako nisi siguran da ?eš oboriti protivnika. Ne upiri prstom na tu?e nepoštenje ako nisi dovoljno jak da to ne moraš dokazivati.

JIM CROW LAWS WERE ENFORCED IN MUCH OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH FROM 1877 TO THE MID-1960S. THESE LOCAL AND STATE LAWS KEPT BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE SEPARATE.

What does a woman have to do to be seen as a serious person?" "Be a man, I guess," Ethan said...

When a man speaks that way, people say he has authority. When a woman does, everyone resents her and thinks she's his mother. Or their nagging wife.

and he was afraid she was going to get that middle-aged coven-member look cultivated by some older women with long hair.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

felt a prickle at the special horror of being not only ill but also marginalized—your testimony dismissed because your lab work fails to match a preexisting pattern.

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!

Please don't tell me you believe dragons eat pretty girls for breakfast.

She [Melba's mother] would tell us the story of the lone black man who was trying to integrate the law school. In the classroom, he was forced to sit confined by a white picket fence erected around his desk and chair.

Life's lessons come from unexpected places. We cannot afford to allow prejudices to shut out God's blessings. Being equal is based on seeing equal. It is seated in each individual's willingness to claim their own equality despite all evidence to the contrary and all talk by others who dare to question their value.

You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.

You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and stands up. 'You chicks give me the shits,' he says. 'You, on the other hand, brighten up our day,' I tell him. 'We all regard you as a god.

You know what we call you? Bitch Spice, Burtch Spice, Slut Spice and Stupid Spice.' Thomas Mackee says this