Quotes about Prejudice
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
Our great nation put a man on the moon, but it can't train its cops to distinguish between an ordinary brown-skinned brother and a criminal.
— Jeffrey Wright
People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.
— Desmond Tutu
In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
— Elie Wiesel
When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.
— Frank Peretti