Gordon W. Allport Quotes

It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

Integration would lead to miscegenation, which will destroy our white race eventually.

Even here in Boston, we are informed, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God. Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

You're either ghetto or you're not.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.