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“We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules," I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.”
“In terms of sex between same-sex partners, the objection that "the parts don't fit" doesnt make sense on even the most logical level. If the parts didn't work together, frankly, people wouldn't be ...”
“It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassion...”
“He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.”
“What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.”
“As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.”
“I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mi...”
“A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true.”
“To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.”
“They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.”
“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.”
“Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don't care, and are all friends. It is very unkind to treat you so.”
“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.”
“I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.”
“These passive prejudices were not necessarily from a place of ugly, but they certainly werent from a place of respect.”
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we woul...”
“Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...”
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.But in the main, I feel like ...”
“Charming. We're going to be murdered in our beds.”
“tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.”
