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Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
— Alveda King
Each thinks he or she is more righteous than the other. Each
— Timothy Lane
When prejudice between team members is present within the team, it's as though a hockey team voluntarily decided to place one or two of their members in the penalty box, and attempted to compete effectively against the opposing team with fewer players.
— Pat MacMillan
Few people are logical. Most of us are prejudiced and biased. Most of us are blighted with preconceived notions, with jealousy, suspicion, fear, envy and pride.
— Dale Carnegie
Tell um de good Lawd dont keer whether he bright er not. Dont nobody but white trash keer dat.
— William Faulkner
IT WAS JUST NOON that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man.
— William Faulkner
that adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority
— William Faulkner
So that's it, he said. Three hundred dollars. I wish somebody would come into this country with a seed that had to be worked everyday from New Year's right on through Christmas. As soon as you niggers are laid-by, trouble starts.
— William Faulkner
There now. Just look at what your grandpa did to that poor old nigger." "Yes," I said. "Now he can spend day after day marching in parades. If it hadn't been for my grandfather, he'd have to work like whitefolks.
— William Faulkner
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
— William Golding
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I get trolled. The usual stuff - sometimes it's homophobic, like gay hate.
— Olly Alexander