Quotes About Prejudice

And Sam? Well, she's not even human, so she doesn't count." "Excuse me?" Sam said. "Face it, you're not one of those bendo-things. You're a robot. A cyborg. Probably an evil one, programmed to murder us all in our sleep." Corey snickered. "Yeah?" Sam lifted a fist to Hayley. "You want to try that one again, blondie?" Hayley looked at Daniel and me. "I rest my case.

Do you know what that word meant? The one she called me?" She shook her head. "No idea. I don't even know if it's Navajo. She may have lived with them, but she's white. The language is nearly impossible for an outsider to learn." "Calling me a witch, too." I shook my head. "At least give me a chance to earn it first.

His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

Mam kissed Ethel and said: "I'm glad to see you settled at last, anyway," That word ANYWAY carried a lot of baggage, Ethel thought. It meant: "Congratulations, even though you're a fallen woman, and you've got an illegitmate child whose father no one knows, and you're marrying a Jew, and living in London, which is the same as Sodom and Gomorrah." But Ethel accepted Mam's qualified blessing and vowed never to say such things to her own child.

A white American can orbit the earth, but a black American can't enter a restroom.

They're Americans when they win races, and when they get conscripted into the army,' Dave said. 'But they're Negroes when they want to buy the house next door to yours.

It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were.

He was the kind of man George had been fighting for a decade: an ugly, fat, foul-mouthed, stupid white racist.

There's nothing wrong with white people. They just ain't black.

They usually had easy answers: send all the Mexicans home, put Hells Angels in the army, castrate the queers. The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions. Georgetown was only a few minutes

It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate, and the newspapers were always ready to supply that need. Maud knew the proprietor of the Mail, Lord Northcliffe. Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate, and the newspapers were always ready to supply that need.

he avoided political discussions with outsiders. They usually had easy answers: send all the Mexicans home, put Hells Angels in the army, castrate the queers. The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.

pensaba que el orgullo nacionalista era una verdadera gilipollez

If you start a witch hunt, you have to find some witches.

Black people who talked about prejudice were boring to whites, like sick people who recited their symptoms.

It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate

Tôt ou tard, toute femme indépendante se fait traiter de sorcière.

Matar a un ruiseñor

Un ignorante piensa que los extranjeros son estúpidos, sin darse cuenta de que él también parecería igual de necio si viajase al extranjero.

Fascism blames problems on a false cause—people of other races.

Nosotros pertenecemos a la nobleza —dijo su padre—. No tenemos por qué atender a las necesidades de unos simples mercaderes.

Un americano blanco puede orbitar alrededor de la Tierra, pero un americano negro no puede entrar en un lavabo.»

En los últimos tiempos evitaba las discusiones políticas con desconocidos; por lo general, siempre tenían respuestas fáciles para todo: enviar a todos los mexicanos a casa, reclutar a los Ángeles del Infierno para el ejército, castrar a los maricones Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Cuanto mayor era su ignorancia, más vehementes eran sus opiniones.