Quotes About Prejudice

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

When your head is held high, society pry.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

I thought she had a good heart, though not much respectability- or maybe it was because of that.

How his family was killed. Fakhri and his thugs raiding villages, burning, raping. Sunnis, Shi'a, Alawites, Christians, everybody killing everybody else. People say the Mafia's bad. Mafia's nothing next to those fucking religions.

They came with nothing, and for a complicated set of reasons, many of them still have nothing. The slurs stick to me, standing on these graves. Rednecks . Trailer-park trash. Racists. Cannon fodder. My ancestors. My people. Me.

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy they were on the fringes of society themselves.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each and every colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

but if the Negro is so distinctly inferior, it is a strange thing to me that it takes such tremendous effort on the part of the white man to make him realize it, and to keep him in the same place into which inferior men naturally fall.

My boy, you are by blood, by appearance, by education, and by tastes a white man. Now, why do you want to throw your life away amidst the poverty and ignorance, in the hopeless struggle, of the black people of the United States?

It is a difficult thing for a white man to learn what a colored man really thinks; because, generally, with the latter an additional and different light must be brought to bear on what he thinks; and his thoughts are often influenced by considerations so delicate and subtle that it would be impossible for him to confess or explain them to one of the opposite race.

Do you know, I don't object to anyone's having prejudices so long as those prejudices don't interfere with my personal liberty.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

That what you see is not always what it looks like i don't judge anyone by his robes.

Could it be that racism is a sort of historical invention, a Satanic hoax?

I've barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?" "Well, we could start with the words 'what indication.' Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, 'Who the hell are you calling a Yankee?' Then we would have fought.

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.

Men are trained to discount women in any number of ways, Lydia.

Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.