Quotes About Prejudice

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I'm stealing, every man thinks I'm a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I'm a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.

Kakva sablasna rije?: frajle! A ipak! Koliko je dubokih tajna pokopano u toj tako vulgarnoj rije?i, koju panonski foringaši izgovaraju, skupljaju?i pri tome pljuva?ku pod jezikom ga?enja i moralnoga prezira!

The anonymous black male is usually an ambiguous figure who arouses the utmost caution and is generally considered dangerous until he proves that he is not.

The North won the war, but the South won the textbooks (blink and you might have missed Reconstruction in high school history class) and the movie house: in one scene in D. W. Griffith's 1915 landmark and deeply racist film The Birth of a Nation, black legislators are depicted drinking, eating chicken, and putting their bare feet up on desks in the South Carolina statehouse. The movie's message was clear: black people were inherently corrupt and unequipped to lead.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

Women, it was believed, simply didn't have the mind for science or medicine—in spite of the fact that Marie Curie had just become the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice.

That man smokes a pipe, and that man drinks liquor—but I do believe he is a Christian!

Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

Racism is one of the biggest taboos in our culture, yet most discrimination against Asian-Americans goes largely unnoticed...its blown off by the rest of the media as a joke, as in "Look at them. They get all up in arms over nothing".

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

It occurred to me suddenly how much easier it was for the rich to refuse to know anything about us when we weren't dressed as individuals.

Baganda girls will zoom your profile pic Just to see if you have money in your pockets.

Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating.

We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

As members of classes, genders, ethnic groups, and nationalities, we will have narrowed our meaning of what it is to be human by means of particularistic interests that explicitly set us against each other.

All my dreams are in black and white. I believe this is the main reason why I can't be a racist in life.

Everything that was once strong and good is now seen as terrible and evil, simply because the woman now holds the baton of leadership in our generation.