When Prejudice Strike Quotes

Prejudice will always be apart of human nature. Prejudice is when one has a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Many citizens in the world do not realize they demonstrate prejudice in their life. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee illustrates prejudice through racism, social class, and sexism through certain characters, to emphasize not to judge a person before being placed in their shoes.

“You aren't really a nigger-lover, then, are you?" (Lee 107-09). "I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes—baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.” (Lee 107-09). This quote is one of many that show how racism is used in the story. In this quote Scout has heard someone call Atticus a nigger lover because he is Tom Robinsons lawyer and he is trying to his best job to help him as he can (Lee). Scout doesn’t really understand at first what a nigger lover is until Atticus explains it to her.

In today’s society, we face prejudice every day in many forms. Most people in today’s society have either been victims of prejudice or are guilty of exhibiting prejudice towards others.

It has been thoroughly thought over what current topic or issue that people experience in most environments today, at both a micro and macro level that would be able to be examined and have come to the decision of looking at the most widely discussed subject, prejudice. All people are affected by prejudice in one way or another and it can impact on people's lives depending on what form it has taken. Also to be able to acknowledge that all people can be prejudices and see this is the first step to overcoming it.. The question that has been decided upon is that of “What types of prejudice do we see commonly today and how do they affect an individual at a micro and macro level?”

All throughout history, prejudice has been a part of society. Discrimination and intolerance are built into human nature. Less than 100 years ago, Blacks were still in the bonds of slavery. However, Blacks were not the only ethnical group that was ever mistreated. During the First World War, Germans in the United States were looked down upon by nearly all of the other citizens. Only a few years later, during World War II, the Japanese that happened to be in America were put into camps due to the incident at Pearl Harbor. During the mass immigration to the United States in the early 1900s, the Irish were met with signs in the workplace stating, "No Irish Need Apply." Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird focuses on two prejudices throughout

Prejudice has presented itself in the world since the beginning of time. During the years leading up to the Second World War, the US and Germany

1. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows many examples of prejudice behaviors. “Tom [Robinson] was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed’ (Lee, 323). Scout, the narrator, develops the statement by providing information about the trial. Tom Robinson was a black man living in Maycomb, he was convicted of raping Mayella Ewell, although there is no proof. Furthermore, the quote also illustrates prejudice by the automatic assumption that Tom Robinson committed the crime.

Imagine living in barracks, starved, then gassed because of your religion. Getting accused of raping someone because of your skin tone, then getting put in prison. Or getting spat upon because you’re a Jew. All of these things occurred at some point in history, and we are shown what this is like through novels, plays and book such as; “To Kill a Mockingbird”, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, “The Merchant of Venice”, and real world occurrences such as the Holocaust. Today I will be talking to you about the ways that prejudice is portrayed in all four of the novels, plays and historic time marks.

Prejudice comes in all forms; whether it is due to someone 's skin color, religion, or disability, fear of someone who is different than what you view as normal is apparent all around us. Miriam Webster defines Prejudice as “injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard to one’s rights”. Although most people tend to associate prejudice with racism, that is not always the case. In quite a few instances of everyday life, it is hate towards another person you consider to be inferior and not normal. Prejudice implies a closed point of view, one that is not open to differences and a prejudgment of a group of people you

Atticus, the main character teaches his children how to handle the cruelty of others. He tries to explain to his daughter the bad terms that are used in Maycomb to show her that they really have no meanings their just used to be hurtful or harmful. Atticus explains to Scout that, “nigger lover is just one those terms that don’t mean anything- like snot nose It's hard to explain—ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves”(Lee 107). This Quote connects to the theme of racial stereotypes because they use a rude term to describe the love of loving a person determined by their melanin skin tone. This matters because people shouldn't judge others by the pigment of their skin nor should they feel superior but people still do it without even thinking.

Atticus said to Scout, ‘ nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don’t mean anything-like snot nose. It’s hard to

In this quote Atticus gets angry at Scout for saying the word "nigger" and told her not to say it anymore even though everyone at school says it like a normal word. Once Atticus explains this to Scout, it shows that he thinks differently of the blacks then everyone else in Maycomb, Alabama and might foreshadow if people will dislike the Finch’s for helping the blacks.

Imagine living in a world that doesn't have any judgment and any stereotype toward any race or any types of people, then the world would be perfect. In the reality, the real world it is not like that. In “the Language of Prejudice” by Gordon Allport and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan both essays are trying to tell the reader that even you are born to be in the certain label you can break it. It also argues that stereotype is an important thing even though it is a simple thing that most people are not even aware of. Throughout “The Language of Prejudice” by Gordon Allport, Allport discusses the truth behind our judgment towards nature and dig deeper into the way of human viewing each other and the negative stereotypes that many people were being

Prejudice is a topic of interest to social psychologists and society as a whole. Prejudice can be defined as ‘an attitude that predisposes a person to think, feel, perceive and act in a favourable or unfavourable way towards a group or its individual members’ (Secord and Backman, 1974, p). Prejudice is often the cause of negative behaviour such as bullying and aggression. Discrimination such as; racism, ageism, sexism, nationalism, classism may occur as a result. Jane Elliot’s study: A Class Divided (1968) attempts to highlight prejudicial behaviour in children. Elliot divided her class into groups of eye colour. She told the children that blue eye colour defined people to be more intelligent and superior to those with brown eyes.

Throughout all the material that we have read one common theme that i have noticed is Prejudice this theme is shown in all of our books To Kill A MockingBird , True Diary of a Part Time Indian. And The Merchant of Venice. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. “When you get to high school Cecil you’ll learn that the jews have been persecuted since the beginning of history, even driven out of their country. It’s one of the most terrible stories in history”