“I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.” YearsSoulKidsUsedEnjoySoundWhiteCompanyRecordsRocksListeningBandPrejudiceRadioSingersLabelsBrownCrapRecord Companies Author:Miles Davis
“I've borne these two kids into a particularly strange circumstance. They are going to have to fend off a lot and protect themselves from a lot of projections and prejudice about who they are, coming from the family that they come from.” TwoKidsStrangeCircumstancesProtectPrejudiceProjection Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people aren't aware of, that affect who's hired, and who gets loans, and how kids are treated in school. But it's a powerful thing if you have on your side an idea that the overwhelming majority of people believe in because that's how you can build a consensus that's lasting.” PeopleIfsBelieveKindMayIdeasKidsSchoolSocialSidesPowerfulPracticePrejudiceMajorityTreatedAll KindsEtcLastingOverwhelmingInteractionLoanConsensusUnspokenYour SideSocial Interaction Author:Barack Obama
“A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids of whatever prejudices or preconceptions they have when they come. You're trying to get them to think and develop, not be a Johnny-one-note.” ThinkingWantShouldTryingKidsComfortPrejudiceNotesUniversityDiscomfortPreconceptions Author:Charles Koch
“The Conservatives hold rural places because they keep bombarding rural Canada with, "Liberals are a bunch of urban, metropolitan snobs who don't care about you and want to leave you dead by the roadside." We've simply got to go out and say, "they're lying to you about us. We actually care about you more than the other guys, and we're not going to pander to your prejudices - we're going to give hope to your kids."” WantGivingCareKidsLyingGuyPrejudiceDon't CareBunchCanadaUrbanOther GuysSnobMetropolitanRoadside Author:Michael Ignatieff
“The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.” KidsStreetsRacismPicksPrejudicePoliceInjusticePrivilegeBlack PeopleApartmentPrivilegedLaw EnforcementElegantJointsCocaineLinguisticsDowntownDouble StandardHarlemWhite PrivilegeIniquitySniffingBreaking The LawStockbrokers Author:Noam Chomsky
“We live in a screen age, and to say to a kid, ‘I’d love for you to look at a book but I hate it when you look at the screen’ is just bizarre. It reflects our own prejudices and comfort zone. It’s nothing but fear of change, of being left out.” LooksBookKidsAgeHateLeftComfortI HatePrejudiceScreensZoneComfort ZoneBizarreLeft OutFear Of Change Author:Marc Prensky
“When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.” KidsMy OwnTrainingPrejudiceOrganizedElitesRollingNeighbourBrazilJiu Jitsu Author:Anderson Silva
“We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people’s minds from those evils.” PeopleMindKidsYoungHateEvilTaughtProtectRacismPrejudiceFilledWombHomophobia Author:Kerry Washington