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Quotes About Prejudice

His idea of female beauty was a woman so fat if you slapped her backside in the morning she'd still be jiggling when you got back home for dinner.
~ Pat Barker
Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.
~ Patricia Briggs
One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn't believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs.
~ Patricia Briggs
What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.
~ Patricia Briggs
She had no idea who the dagos were. Her racist vocabulary obviously needed work. What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.
~ Patricia Briggs
Mercy: Then why didn't Marsilia just come herself? Andre: Marsilia is a lady. Women do not belong in combat. Mercy: So you brought me instead?
~ Patricia Briggs
Some people, me, get a black eye and other people ask "who beat you up?" Other people, Spielman, get a black eye and other people say "where did they bury the other guy?
~ Patricia Briggs
taught that people are not to 'be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
~ Patricia Briggs
She had no idea who the dagos were. Her racist vocabulary obviously needed work.
~ Patricia Briggs
Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.
~ Patricia Briggs
I keep forgetting that you're not as empty headed as most princesses.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Would a white supremacist group bond together against an African-American group if the African-American group magically transformed into whites?
~ Unknown
Despite differences of age, sexual orientation, social class, region, and religion, U.S. Black women encounter societal practices that restrict us to inferior housing, neighborhoods, schools, jobs, and public treatment and hide this differential consideration behind an array of common beliefs about Black women's intelligence, work habits, and sexuality. These common challenges in turn result in recurring patterns of experiences for individual group members.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
Racism didn't magically go away just because we refuse to talk about it. Rather, overt racial language is replaced by covert racial euphemisms that reference the same phenomena-talk of "niggers" and "ghettos" becomes replaced by phrases such as "urban," "welfare mothers," and "street crime." Everyone knows what these terms mean, and if they don't, they quickly figure it out.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
if she'd had a tough time trying to live life as the Colored Professor. Annalee knew that in this uniform, she would simply disappear. her identity would blur and fade, then - poof- disintegrate. No wonder Benita acted so angry. In these clothes, people don't even see her.
~ Unknown
Their religion was never something they talked about, aside from offering a brief grace at big meals. They simply tried to abide by the Ten Commandments as best they could, with occasional lapses of racism and prejudice and fractured promises of fidelity.
~ Unknown
An ignorant society is a safe society.
~ Patrick Carman
the law is a blind woman and the judge usually an unloved old man.
~ Unknown
Ella glanced at him reproachfully, and explained herself. 'Talking to those Prostitutes,' said Ella. . . . Her violent stress upon the first syllable of this word implied a differentiation between a large class of almost venial Titutes, and another branch of the same class, designated as Pros, and beyond the pale.
~ Patrick Hamilton
If you only rely on random chance and luck to make a great first impression, you will be waiting for a long time.
~ Unknown
we tend to put people into three buckets: people that we are sure we like, people we don't know if we like, and people we don't like.
~ Unknown
We'd all met in the office and told the vice principal—who, like all vice principals, is genetically Nazi—what we'd seen. He
~ Patrick Ness
We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay.
~ Patrick Ness
Na sua vida, nunca conhecera uma prostituta tão bem-educada. Não condizia, ser puta e ao mesmo tempo saber tanto.
~ Unknown