Quotes about Prejudice
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
— George Bernard Shaw
You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.
— George Bernard Shaw
Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know," said Mr. Brooke
— George Eliot
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
— Maya Angelou
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
— Samuel Johnson
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
— Shirley Chisholm
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
— Bo Jackson
Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.
— Conan O'Brien
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
— Mark Twain
When this happens, it demonstrates a divine power equal to the same divine power seen in the creation of a world. It is without question the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous to all those who are not blinded by prejudice and unbelief.
— John Newton
We humans have never had the resources in ourselves to love each other well across ethnic lines. There is too much selfishness in all of us.
— John Piper