Prejudice Quote by Shirley Chisholm Download Open image “... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.” — Shirley Chisholm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Prejudice Prisoner Racial prejudice Racism
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us. — Jose Serrano Copy Share Image
Prisoners do matter when analyzing the severity of racial inequality in the U.S. Yet because they are out of sight and out of mind,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people of color,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
You don't need to visit a prison to know that racial inequality exists. There's enough talk about it, especially in Silicon Valley, to know… — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system,… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology.… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“Following along the path of her role models, Shirley knew that if she waited for permission, she’d never receive her turn.” — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I hate prejudice on any level. I don't care if it's somebody being discriminated against because of the color of their skin or their… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Those who embrace prejudice doom themselves to live in ignorance.” — John P Lintz Sr Copy Share Image
