Quotes About Prejudice

Tara's already been called a lesbian because that's how the Sebastian boys deal with any girl who has an opinion.

Sluts and losers are tolerable to my friends. But a person with a social conscience is from Pluto.

What is it with that argument? Why is it that you have to jump through hoops of fire to find out that someone's decent? The fact that someone is a bitch on the surface says heaps about them.

You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

It was ridiculous that things outside a person's control could make others hate you. The nature of your blood wasn't a choice, but humanity had a long history of killing, imprisoning, or fearing others for their race or religion.

I've never understood it. That is always the first thing someone asks: Where are you from. Not 'What do you like?' or 'What do you believe?' or even 'What is your mother like?' which all have more bearing on the person I am. And if I don't tell them where I'm from, they try to guess.... It drives them mad, as if to know me they need to know where I am from.

Prisoners of war had] definitely more privileges. They could go anywhere in town they wanted; we could only go in the black section. And of course, as I said, on the train, they could ride in the back of the train or anywhere on the train they wanted, but we had to get in the car right behind the coal car or the baggage car, whichever one was there. And buses, they sat in front and we sat in the back.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

White women who suffer from mental illness are depicted as idle, spoiled, or just plain hysterical. Black men are demonized and pathologized. Black women with psychological problems are certainly not seen as geniuses; we are generally not labeled 'hysterical' or 'eccentric' or even 'pathological'. When a black woman suffers from a mental disorder, the overwhelming opinion is that she is weak. And weakness in black women is intolerable.

I have yet to meet a Southern woman with two first names that wasn't a man-eater.

and I do not like french poodle people because a french poodle people is a bastard everywhere

everybody was a lady—the fish lady, the yam lady, the store lady, the teacher lady'.6 She noticed, however, many instances of self-contempt. 'When I was a child,' she said, 'nearly everything about us was bad, you know; they would tell yuh seh yuh have bad hair, that black people bad… and that the language yuh talk was bad. And I know that a lot of people I knew were not bad at all, they were nice people and they talked this language.'7

If you are an educated person, you will need to be careful not to assume that uneducated people are too stupid to understand the Bible.

Existe dois tipos de pretos: os calçados e os pretos.

Os mulatos só são pretos quando lhes convém. (...) - Não sou preto! - Então? - Sou extremamente mulato!

Não gosto de pretos, Kindzu. - Como? Então gosta de quem? Dos brancos? - Também não. - Já sei: gosta de indianos, gosta da sua raça. - Não. Eu gosto de homens que não tem raça. É por isso que eu gosto de si, Kindzu.

Taking control of a ship operated by those bumpy-headed savages

Because finding the differences upon which we can hang hatred is much easier than discovering the common ground that can unite.

he knew in his heart he was not a prejudiced person. "So once that's given, once you know what you think, there's no reason to be ginger about what you say," he said. "A lot of people, they're very careful not to say things that might offend certain people or do anything that might be misinterpreted. But what they don't realize is that the point of all this is to change the way you live your life, not the way you speak.

Norwegian racism is always a kind of racism that is not prepared to accept it being qualified as such. Because we're the good guys, and racism is what bad people do.

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

He paused, looked Thad in the eye, and told him through a sarcastic smirk, "I see you brought your two daddies tonight. Are they proud of their boy toy?

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.