
Top 17 Class Prejudice Quotes
#1. Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
William Jennings Bryan
#2. It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
Gordon W. Allport
#3. The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.
Dorothy Allison
#4. I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people.
Eleanor Smeal
#5. Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.
Rebecca West
#6. A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
Frederick Douglass
#7. Visualize your strongest desire, the Gardeners used to say, and it will manifest; which doesn't always work, or not as intended. Her
Margaret Atwood
#8. We Pashtuns love shoes but don't love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respect the weaver. Manual workers made a great contribution to our society but received no recognition, and this is the reason so many of them joined the Taliban - to finally achieve status and power.
Malala Yousafzai
#9. You ... smell like rain." Whatever I expected, that hadn't been it. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" "Good," he said. "Definitely good.
Alicia Thompson
#10. Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.
Martin Jacques
#11. You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.
Bill Parcells
#12. In African American culture, class bias is the handmaiden of intraracial prejudice that privileges the near-white or light-complexioned person over the darker-hued.
Rita B. Dandridge
#13. The bus was crowded, standing room only, and he clung apelike from a bar that hung down from the ceiling. It was humiliating to be packed in with all these people; it reminded him of a cattle car or worse, a sardine can, or worse...but what could be worse than this?
Joseph G. Peterson
#14. Heat prickled my cheeks. My palms went clammy. Love is a lot like food poisoning.
Suzanne Supplee
#15. It had barely registered, the lament was so commonplace. But I felt it now.
Gillian Flynn
#16. The upper-caste, upper-class Hindus have to let go of their bigotry and prejudice. The oppressed have to let go of their justified but expensive urge for revenge and retribution. All over the world, the oppressed have only risen through self-empowerment - look at the Jews and the Parsis.
Chetan Bhagat
#17. England's a nice place if you're rich, but otherwise it's a fucking swamp of prejudice, class confusion, the whole thing.
Hanif Kureishi
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