Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Prejudice Quotes
Cultural StereotypesIdentityPrejudiceSelf-Perception Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
EqualityFreedomIdentityPrejudiceSocial Justice Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.
FreedomIdentityIndividualityPrejudiceSociety I think it's a shame that people are so quick to put you in a box; sometimes it's as if you do one thing, and that's all you're allowed to do.
EqualityHuman RightsJusticePrejudiceTolerance Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
BigotryNarrow-MindednessPerspectivePrejudice Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
AggressionConflictMilitaryPrejudiceViolence I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.
CompassionLovePrejudiceReligionUnity Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.
DiscoveryOpen-mindednessPrejudiceTravel To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Double StandardsPrejudiceRepresentationStereotypes If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?
FearIntimidationPerceptionPrejudiceSuspicion It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
CommunityEmpathyLegacyPrejudiceUnity All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
CommunityImmigrationJusticePerceptionPrejudice Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.
Cultural IdentityFamily ValuesPrejudiceRacial RelationsSocial Attitudes No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.
ColonialismHistoryIdentityPrejudiceSociety We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of the world we must be the focus of bitter amusement, characters in a satire we don't understand. It is British people that don't learn languages, or British history. Britain is the true scrounger, the true criminal.
CommunicationFriendshipGender EqualityPrejudiceSocial Perception I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.
LimitationPrejudiceStagnation Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.
Cultural PrideHistoryIdentityIntellectPrejudice When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'
AmbitionIdentityPerceptionPrejudiceResilience I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.
DehumanizationMindsetPrejudiceViolence Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
Media BiasMedia RepresentationPrejudiceRacial StereotypesSocial Justice I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
FreedomHistoryOppressionPrejudiceRacism White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
ConscienceDangerInner ConflictMoralityPrejudice There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
