Quotes About Prejudice

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

his mother collapsed at the news that her son had married a shiksa.

The aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh argued in popular radio speeches that it would be foolish and hypocritical to fight Germany. He said America had no standing to accuse the Nazis of aggression and barbarism because America had sometimes been aggressive and barbaric itself. Later he argued that American Jews were a "danger to this country" on account of their "ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

I know a few Negroes I respect and admire, for they got what they wanted by working for it." But most blacks were not quite so good, Ledford asserted. "I've lost my respect for them, except the few I told you about because they want to force themselves on us…. Why doesn't the Negro leave us alone and mind his own business and quit thinking he's too good for our laws." The laws Ledford referred to were the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already another form of violence.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

les juifs d'Israël, descendants des victimes d'un apartheid nommé ghetto, ghettoïsent les Palestiniens. Les juifs qui furent humiliés, méprisés, persécutés, humilient, méprisent et persécutent les Palestiniens. Les juifs qui furent victimes d'un ordre impitoyable imposent leur ordre impitoyable aux Palestiniens. Les juifs victimes de l'inhumanité montrent une terrible inhumanité »

when ''such things happened'' it was undoubtedly foolish of the man, but somehow always criminal of the woman.

What do you call the weak point? He paused. The fact that the average American looks down on his wife.

Beaufort was vulgar, he was uneducated, he was purse-proud; but the circumstances of his life, and a certain native shrewdness, made him better worth talking to than many men, morally and socially his betters, whose horizon was bounded by the Battery and the Central Park.

Los más tradicionales le tenían cariño precisamente por ser pequeña e incómoda, lo que alejaba a los nuevos ricos a quienes Nueva York empezaba a temer, aunque, al mismo tiempo, le simpatizaban.

In the 1950s the three most heinous things in America were heroin use, communism, and homosexuality.

Me temo, cariño —me dijo ella—, que ya no tienes edad para ser un maricón de los de antes.

Frankenstein as the underdog. Not the monster. The villagers pursuing him are the monster.

And he would have been most surprised if anyone had told him he was prejudiced, it being the nature of a prejudice that those who possess it have no idea that it is prejudice at all.

propio del prejuicio es que aquel que lo tiene no es consciente de ello en absoluto.

They treat Haitians like dogs in the Bahamas, a woman says. To them, we are not human. Even though their music sounds like ours. Their people look like ours. Even though we had the same African fathers who probably crossed these same seas together.

Un bébé titube avec des gestes d'ivrogne. Charmant, ce bébé, pas dangereux, pas jugeur de Juifs. Envie de l'embrasser. Non, trop blond, antisémite dans vingt ans.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.