#prejudice

…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term “white supremacy” enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise “white supremacist control” over other black people. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#prejudice #race #white-supremacy #attitude

Every person's true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#personal-identity #prejudices #beauty

I'm fully aware," Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, "that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars. ↗

— Colin Firth

#change

People are always afraid of anything different. They are afraid of change," says Sensai. "It is the same everywhere. ↗

— Sandy Fussell

#discrimination #prejudice #change

When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing? ↗

— Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

#people #prejudice #change

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education. ↗

— Liza Mundy

#education #inspirational #prejudice #education

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#conduct #double-standards #empowerment #equality #gender

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#books #celebrities #equality #information #knowledge

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#appears #different #itself #nature #prejudiced

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#prejudice #race #self-esteem #inspirational