Quotes About Prejudice

And conscience—his thinking was so black and white he thought I was going to hell for having premarital sex. It didn't cross his mind that throwing a water glass across the room at me when he'd found out I'd had premarital sex was not exactly heaven-bound behavior.

We are the children of a womb.Yet we differentiate each other, On color, creed and the sizes of our tombs!!

Don't judge a cat by its coat.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast, ' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

The waters of spirituality are forever changing and forever constant. Prejudice or fixed ideas can only weigh you down and remove you from the flow. - The Book of Metanoia (D. Williamsen)

People judge you by what they see outside of you, But don't let them judge you, because they never see what is inside of you.

When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

Primitive does not mean stupid.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.

We see a kind of tattoo and assume a gang member. Or we hear an accent and assume a terrorist. Politicians play off this conclusion-leaping. They use our leaping to manipulate us. Not so with cats. Being predators, they think more simply. If they fail to understand us, it's probably our fault.

If a woman-in-a-man's body goes after a man, is she attracted to the same or the opposite sex? If a man-in-a -woman's body wants a woman, is he a lesbian or straight? Prejudice is only cowardice in the face of complexity.

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Faggots are the great immoralists.

Divine was metamorphosed into one of those monsters that are painted on walls, for a customer murmured a magic word: 'homoseckshual

She was in Spain, I believe. Kids were chasing her and screaming 'Maricona' and throwing stones at her.