Quotes About Prejudice

Cops are not trusting people.

Jarret supporters have been known, now and then, to form mobs and burn people at the stake for being witches. Witches! In 2032! A witch, in their view, tends to be a Moslem, a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist, or, in some parts of the country, a Mormon, a Jehovah's Witness, or even a Catholic. A witch may also be an atheist, a "cultist," or a well-to-do eccentric.

They look at us as though we smell and they don't.

The possibility of meeting a white adult here frightened me, more than the possibility of street violence ever had at home.

The cops liked to solve cases by "discovering" evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty.

I find it very hard to be fair-minded About people who go around being air-minded.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.

Nobody takes any notice of old women who wander around with their shopping bags.

She thought about how hno one had taught us to grow old, how we didn't know what it would be like. When we were young we though of old age as an ailment that affected only other people. While we, for reasons never entirely clear, would remain young. We treated the old as though they were responsible for their condition somehow, as though they'd done something to earn it, like some types of diabetes or arteriosclerosis. And yet this was an ailment that affected the absolute most innocent.

Ojciec cz?sto powtarza? mu (...) ?e kobiety s? z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane.

Kto? taki jak pan b?dzie budzi? niech?? i nienawi??, bo b?dzie jasno przypomina?, ?e wizja ?wiata bia?o-czarnego jest wizj? k?amliw? i niszcz?c?.

The child seems quite a nice little thing." "But how long will she stay quite a nice little thing with a mother like that? Really, Mabel!" "And nice little thing or not," spoke up somebody from the other side of the hearth, "I'm sure I don't want my son meeting her at dances, and things, as he grows up, and run the risk of having him fall in love with a girl with such a mother!

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

She's just a typical bourgeois reactionary.' 'You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.

Harriet was reminded of Doamna Flöhr's claim that the exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.

The trouble with prejudice is, there's usually a reason for it,' but she now knew better than to say this to Guy.

The cruel social arbiters of Indian society were denying individual merit. In their eyes, Ambedkar was simply a Mahar, and they could not care less if his scholarship was as vast as the sky.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Speaking of racism in relation to a religion, not a race, is a big disservice to the language and to the intelligence.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Appreciation for history is scarce today, public debate is only rarely lit by foundational principles, and there is a further reason why the needed discussion fails to get off the ground—especially in the speech code, cancel culture of many American and European universities. Debate is often ended by prejudice and a fashionable consensus that chokes it off from the start.

never could think of prostitutes as human beings or even as women. They seemed more like imbeciles or lunatics. But in their arms I felt absolute security. I could sleep soundly.