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Quotes About Prejudice

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.
~ Marina Abramovic
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
~ Martin Luther
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
~ Francis Alexander Durivage
When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all.
~ Lois Greiman, Unmanned
Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.
~ Russell Brand
Do you suffer fromcallous-narrow-minded biases?I'm humanely secondhand embarrassed for you.
~ JT Sanz
You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.
~ John Scalzi, Lock In
I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming.
~ Harper Lee
If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
~ Laura Schlessinger
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.
~ Aviva Cantor
And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!
~ Christopher Titus
People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.
~ Patty Hearst
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
~ Margaret Atwood
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.
~ Josephine Baker
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.
~ Arundhati Roy
Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
~ Imelda Staunton
(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.
~ Tom Clancy
Well-bred English people never have imagination.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
~ Martina Navratilova
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
~ J.K. Rowling
Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
~ Jon Bon Jovi