Quotes About Prejudice

Al negro de raza la arruga no amenaza»

Dac? porneÈ™ti o vân?toare de vr?jitoare, trebuie s? g?seÈ™ti È™i niÈ™te vr?jitoare.

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

They think they know the book by its cover, but the book knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never opens up and comes out, it can be warped to fit the image others see. . . .No, a book wasn't invulnerable to the appearance of its cover, not by any means.

God looks out for fools and niggers.

They didn't mind so much when I was a dumb logger and got into a hassle; that's excusable, they say, that's a hard-workin' feller blowing off steam, they say. But if you're a gambler, if they know you to get up a back-room game now and then, all you have to do is spit slantwise and you're a goddamned criminal.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.

God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady.

O father Abram! what these Christians are,Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspectThe thoughts of others.

How like a fawning publican he looks!I hate him for he is a Christian.

I have a daughter;Would any of the stock of BarabbasHad been her husband rather than a Christian!

[He] curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever.

No white man is innocent. I am not innocent.

He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers.

Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.

Fascism was the evil. And it still exists! It is the worst evil in the world. Setting people against each other because of their skin color or because someone has a little more than someone else.

And then, that Kapo behind you. You're just a poor wretch and there's a Kapo wearing a splendid woolen angora sweater and a short skirt and high boots and magnificently piled up hair. She follows you with a whip in her hand. I won't say that they were all like that, but yes, we had good reason to hate those Polish Kapos. To this day I don't like angora sweaters.

Among the whites some think they can see and choose for others.