Penny: Before I moved in with the Zamins, I thought like a lot of you guys. "They're weird, they're different, they're not like us." And I was right. And the more I got to know them, the stranger they became. And before I knew it, they were exactly like my family: truly bizarre.
Oscar: Why is she calling us bizarre?
Suga Mama: Have you looked in the mirror lately?
Trudy: Shh.
Penny: But they're exactly like all of our families. Little brothers and sisters that get on your nerves, a father that's too overprotective, a grandparent that sleeps in front of the TV, and a mom that keeps everything together. And if you know that, you could never write on their door "Go back to your country", "America for Americans". You just couldn't do it. Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. Peace.
—The Proud Family, "Culture Shock"
"Superheroes can be any colour, and my superhero is black!"
— Brandon, Sesame Street
"It's not about the colour of your skin — what matters is if you're cool!"
— Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, Happy Days, "The Best Man"
As soon as you're born, grownups check where you pee
Then they decide just how you're supposed to be.
Girls pink and quiet, boys noisy and blue.
Seems like a dumb way to choose what you'll do.
Then they decide just how you're supposed to be.
Girls pink and quiet, boys noisy and blue.
Seems like a dumb way to choose what you'll do.
— Peter Alsop, "It's Only a Wee-Wee"
"You don't know anything about him! You're just being prejudiced! Yeah, prejudiced! It's like when you decide you don't like someone before you even know them! You prejudge them! I used to be prejudiced too, but... Skits, there are good cats... and there are not-so-good cats. Just like there are good dogs and not-so-good dogs. Just give him a chance."
— Martha, Martha Speaks, "There Goes the Neighbourhood"
"I don't care what you hear what you saw on TV, with all those 'ugh's and 'me wannum's, I'm telling you Indians don't talk like that!"
— Native American Boy, Sesame Street
"If day can turn to night, and the darkness turn to light, then why can't we imagine a changeling can change?"
— Spike, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "The Times, They Are a Changeling"
Savion: "Telly, there are just some really stupid people in the world who can't stand to see it when people of different races are friends."
Telly: "Why not?"
Gina: "I have no idea, Telly, but that was one of those awful people. Because Sav's skin is brown and mine is white, he thinks we shouldn't be friends and it drove him nuts just to see us having fun together!"
Telly: "What's colour got to do with being friends?"
Gina: "Nothing! Nothing at all! That's the point! Look, Telly, your skin is purple, right? Uh, and— and mine is pink. I mean, if it was up to that nut, if we were to listen to him, you and I couldn't be friends! Just... just look at that plaque on Sesame Street, th-there... there are brown people, there are pink people. Not to mention every other colour, right? There... there are monsters, there are penguins, there are... grouches!"
Telly: "And an eight-foot tall yellow bird who's friends with everyone!"
Gina: "Right! Right!"
Savion: "I wonder what that jerk thinks about that?"
"You're horsefeathers, everybody's an individual, responsible for their own actions. I judge people by what they say and do. Not by skin colour or sex or nationality, or whether or not they happen to have magic powers!"
— Uncle Quigley to Tim the Witch Smeller, Sabrina: The Animated Series
"Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this ressurected ghost of a previous nightmare? Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry—he's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because, through these things, we keep him alive.
— Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone (1959), "He's Alive"
Jonathan: Julius, listen to me. You've lost a brother, and that boy's lost a father, two people who hated each other without even knowing each other. Does that make sense to you, son?
Julius: No.
Jonathan: Then talk to him. Give him a chance to know you. Give yourself a chance to know him. It's the only way the hatred is going to stop.
—Highway to Heaven, "Back To Oakland"
