Quotes About Prejudice

You couldn't educate hate out of people who needed someone less than themselves, someone they could point at and measure their lives by. They

Lily did have her .22 holstered under her toggle coat, which unnerved Bryan. He was a flatlander originally--a Masshole, even--so always seemed vaguely panicked at the very concept of a well-regulated liberal.

Everybody hated the Chinese, and the Chinese, ever willing to oblige, reciprocated.

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.

Julia stood and they shook hands in that brittle Southern girl-girl squeeze of limp fingers; the one that says, When did they start letting people like you in? Dornan, of course, noticed none of this. His world was full of Tammy, his girl, his fiancée, the light of his life.

Supporters of the two men believed they were victims of a deeply ingrained prejudice against immigrants and radicals.

Un diploma de dentista es respetable, pero uno de filósofo es grotesco.

Mensch ohne Vorurteile bedeutet gewöhnlich Mensch ohne Geistigkeit. Vorurteile, Aberglauben, Skrupel sind Keime des Geistes, der in einfachen Seelen sprießt. Mit ihnen aufzuräumen, um von den Seelen die Last zu nhmen, die "den freien Ausdruck des Geistes erstickt", begünstigt lediglich die Erosion dieser armen Boden.

The racist errs by believing that pure races exist, the anti-racist by believing that the ingredients of a beverage are of no importance.

Die nationalistische Xenophobie bewahrt die Unversehrtheit köstlicher Speisen für die, die weder Nationalisten noch xenophob sind.

no sin dejar de exponer su antisemitismo alegando que "los hebreos se caracterizan por determinadas formas de delito: estafa, falsedad, calumnia, y sobre todo, la usura".

When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

Are you discriminating me?!

Ma l'autore si vergogna molto, a occupare così a lungo i lettori con gente di basso livello, sapendo per esperienza che essi fanno conoscenza malvolentieri con i ceti bassi. È pur così l'uomo russo: ha una gran passione a frequentare quelli che sia pure di un solo grado gli stanno sopra, e un reciproco toccarsi il cappello all'incontro con un conte o un principe è per lui meglio di qualsiasi intimo rapporto amichevole.

These inbred pinheads are the only people you could find in the world to agree with your philosophies. (In reference to Wally George's largely redneck audience.)

Nothing is more suspicious than an unfeeling woman.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

The whole point about 'romance' is that the woman is somehow always smaller, more diminutive in a cute sort of way, while the man is adult.

There's always something fishy about the French.

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If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

Die Formverachtung geht auf Kosten der Minderheit.

In New York City, twenty-three African-American cops have been shot and eighteen others assaulted by white officers in cases of "mistaken identity." Not one white cop has ever been shot by a black cop. The PBA, while bemoaning these "tragic incidents," has done nothing to help remedy the problem.

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.