Quotes About Prejudice

Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.

Interpretation through the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.

the newly arrived Ivets being hunted down and killed. Beaten into the mud with makeshift clubs, or gored by baying sayce to the sound of cheers. If they looked through the window at an angle they would be able to see boats of all sizes sailing hurriedly out of the circular polyp harbours for the safety of the water. I hate Adamists, Lori said. Only Adamists could do this to one another. They do it because they don't know one another. They don't love, they can only lust and fear.

Any race of people that allows itself to be graded on a scale designed by European science will appear to be a culture of higher primates.

Kinder haben keine Vorurteile, und die Urteile werden ihnen erst gemacht. Nicht von den Dichtern, sondern von denen, die scheinbar erfolgreich die Gegenwart besetzen.

Antisemitism became institutionalized in elite and conservative society rather than in laws.

Antisemitism is a categorical impugning of Jews as collectively embodying distasteful and/or destructive traits. In other words, antisemitism is the belief that Jews have common repellent and/or ruinous qualities that set them apart from non-Jews. Descent is determinative; individuality is illusory.

never to put oneself in the place of non-Germans was part and parcel of being a National Socialist.

Antisemitism is a categorical impugning of Jews as collectively embodying distasteful and/or destructive

Antisemitism is a categorical impugning of Jews as collectively embodying distasteful and/or destructive traits.

invention of the new word antisemitism. The invention marked an ominous qualitative change, in that the new form of hostility focused not on what Jews believed or how they behaved but on what they intrinsically and unchangeably supposedly are.

Attacking Jews was of far greater importance to the Nazis than defending them was to other Germans, so most such people decided that discretion was the better part of valor and said nothing.

All that is really necessary to hate someone is not to give a shit about what happens to him. And when we don't give a shit about what happens to a whole group of Americans because of the color of their skin, that is racism.

The way I see it, we're all either Trayvon Martin or we're George Zimmerman. The choice is ours. There's no in-between.

We can either write history as a way of placing our own values and prejudice is at the center of every picture, or we can choose to allow for what sometimes is referred to as the "nomadic alternative"—a term politely coined by some recent researchers to celebrate their growing realization that nomadic people might have had some sound reasons for wanting to live their own life in their own way….

“You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.