Quotes about Prejudice
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
— Teresa of Avila
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
— John Tillotson
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
— Stephen Malkmus
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
— Damian Lewis
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
— Don Cheadle
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
— Malcolm X
Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
— Malcolm X
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
— Mark Twain
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
— Mark Twain
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.
— Hillary Clinton
You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."
— Jennifer Aniston