Quotes about Prejudice

All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.

If you are born in America with a black skin, you're in prison

This is still one of the black man's big troubles today. So many of those so-called "upper class" Negroes are so busy trying to impress on the white man that they are "different from those others" that they can't see they are only helping the white man to keep his low opinion of all Negroes.

For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?

The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And

Is it clear why I have said that the American white man's malignant superiority complex has done him more harm than an invading army?

You don't have to go behind bars to be in jail in this country. If you are born in this country with black skin you are already in jail, you are already confined, you are already watched over by a warden who poses as your mayor and poses as your governor and poses as your President.

the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's non-white man.

the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.

A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish that they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.