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Quotes About Prejudice

Different eye color, hair color—is that enough to arouse this much hostility?
~ Osamu Dazai
Though Apartheid policies were officially rescinded in South Africa, the Apartheid mentality and various other forms of racial discrimination still thrive in the world.
~ Unknown
You've got to be taughtBefore it's too lateBefore you are six, or seven, or eightTo hate all the people your relatives hateYou've got to be carefully taught.
~ Unknown
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances
~ Oscar Wilde
Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
~ Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
~ Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
~ Oscar Wilde
No pido tolerancia porque me parece una boludez. [...] La tolerancia es el prejuicio pero más light. Pedir tolerancia es aceptar que algo estás haciendo mal.
~ Unknown
the greatest dissipater of our relationship to God is personal sympathy and personal prejudice.
~ Oswald Chambers
Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.
~ Unknown
He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.
~ Ouida
Experience is an excellent spyglass; but it has this drawback, that Prejudice very often clouds the lens.
~ Ouida
Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
~ Unknown
No good can come of association with anything labelled Gwladys or Ysobel or Ethyl or Mabelle or Kathryn. But particularly Gwladys.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
My mama told me don't trust no white boy, even a pretty one. I'm thinkin' a pretty white boy with wings explodin' up from the ground in a mess of blood and ugly-ass bird things is double trouble." - Kramisha (Ch 5)
~ P.C. Cast
Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
he held deep contempt for Amanda White on principle
~ Unknown
What kinda family she come from? There was something about her I don't like. It seems funny, the first time you meet her she comes to your empty house alone. These college girls, they all one step from the streets. (MARTY turns, gowning, to his mother) MARTY What are you talkin' about? She's a nice girl. THE MOTHER I don't like her. MARTY You don't like her? You only met her for two minutes.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
~ Padma Lakshmi
To the people in Creede I am intelligent, suspiciously sophisticated and elitist to the point of being absurd. To the people at UC Davis I am quaint, a little slow on the uptake and far too earnest to even believe.
~ Pam Houston
rid of the Jews and turned them in to the Germans
~ Pam Jenoff
We're stuck on this image of gay women as masculine and gay men as feminine, and we refuse to recognize that they look just like you and me. The black community is going to have to recognize that condemning these guys because they're gay is wrong.
~ Unknown
Voltaire also keenly endorsed Catherine of Russia's plan to 'preach tolerance with bayonets at the end of their rifles' in Poland. Exhorting Catherine to learn Greek as she prepared to attack the Ottoman Empire, he added that 'it is absolutely necessary to chase from Europe the Turkish language, as well as all those who speak it'.
~ Pankaj Mishra
The writer Anne Lamott says, "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."28
~ Parker J. Palmer