No Prejudice Quotes
English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.
Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.
I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth.
What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.
Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.
As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...
To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.
Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to coloured people. Elizabeth smiles like she's talking to a child, although certainly not her own. I am starting to notice things.
Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.
Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.
The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice
The term "racist" comes from the word "racialist": Someone that sees the world from a racial prism.
Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.
I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies
Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.
Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.
I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching.
Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.
The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.
There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)
Jersey cows, ” Eva explained after Jac complimented the luxurious taste. “The butter and cream here are better than anywhere in the world.”“Not that we’re prejudiced, ” Theo teased.
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Devil has to offer many diabolical grimaces: One of these caricatures is prejudice, it stirs up hatred.
..a disability is something within you. A prejudice is something within theemployer...don’t look at yourself through their eyes. Look at yourself through your own eyes.
It was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.
If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is worse than Cancer.
They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else. I automatically started every interaction at a disadvantage.
When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield
What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict.