Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.

Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.

If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, I'm walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of.

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an evil kind of crazy man who's righteous. Fear the righteous.

I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the right girl yet.

I'm not homophobic. I'm not scared of my house.

Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.

Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew." Meaning: I may be me- but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.