Quotes about Prejudice

You born here? Naw. Down south. Jacksonville, Florida. Bad country, boy. Bad, bad country. You know they ain't even got an orphanage in Jacksonville where colored babies can go? They have to put 'em in jail. I tell people that talk about them sit ins I was raised in jail, and it don't scare me none.

One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge.

Once they knew she had been working for a doctor, the eye rolling and tooth sucking was enough to make clear their scorn. And nothing Cee remembered—how pleasant she felt upon awakening after Dr. Beau had stuck her with a needle to put her to sleep; how passionate he was about the value of the examinations; how she believed the blood and pain that followed was a menstrual problem—nothing made them change their minds about the medical industry.

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vendor of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh; and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom of fifteen to a lady of fifty.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

My reputation was that I had bad BO, and I was poor, and I was ugly.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

How very little a person knew about someone simply from looking at her. Yet how much people decided about others at a single glance. Herself included.