Quotes / You Are a Credit to Your Race

Mochi: I'm glad we could become friends! Even though you're a wolf, you've been so nice to me all day!

Treat: Could you... stop saying that?

Mochi: Huh? Saying what?

Treat: ...When you say "even though you're a wolf", and try to compliment me... doesn't that assume wolves are supposed to be bad?

—Lonely Wolf Treat

Val-Yor: Thank you, Starfire. I have to admit, you're not bad for a Tr... Tamaranean. You must be one of the good ones.

Starfire: No. The fact that I rescued you does not make me any better than other Tamaraneans.

Val-Yor: Look. I'm trying to pay you a compliment.

Raven: Then why does it still sound like an insult?

—Teen Titans

Fry: My roommate is a MONKEY?

Guenter: Brilliant deduction. You are a credit to your species.

—Futurama

Hmm... So you and that other human would stand before obliteration to aid the goddess, would you? How curious... the humans I've known were weak things. Hardly more than insects, shivering under rocks and ready to flee at the mere glimpse of me. When last I walked this world, they did little more than scream and cling to their goddess, mewling and praying... counting on her to protect them. How amusing to think those cowards begot someone like you.

— Demise, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

"I'm not arguing that The Siege is a deliberately offensive movie. It's not that brainy. In its clumsy way, it throws in comments now and then to show it knows the difference between Arab terrorists and American citizens. But the prejudicial attitudes embodied in the film are insidious, like the anti-Semitism that infected fiction and journalism in the 1930s — not just in Germany, but in Britain and America."

— Roger Ebert

"I'm taking a course in African studies at school; I had no idea you people were so civilized!"

— Fox girl, Fritz the Cat

Van Zieks: Despite being a Nipponese, you saw through the pretence to the malice that festered within that Englishman. And at the same time, saw through the grime to the surprising heart of your English client. You have a curious talent for judging character, especially considering our very different cultures.
Ryunosuke:...I don't think there's anything curious about it. Whether we're from the Empire of Great Britain...or the Empire of Japan ...we're all human beings. We're not so very different on the inside.

— The Great Ace Attorney

Rarity: He doesn't have to look like other dragons!
Twilight Sparkle: Or act like them!
Spike: I don't... act like other dragons?
Pinkie Pie: Oh, not even close!
Applejack: But why would you want to, Spike?
Rarity: Yes! You've got something those dreadfully fearsome dragons could only dream of!
Spike: What's that?
Rarity: Your cutest, wittle chubby cheeks!

— My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Dragon Quest"

""Exceptional Negro." "Thank you, sir." It was the call and response of my entire life. I had let them talk to me like that for so long, I stopped hearing it. "Yes, sir." "Of course, sir." Subject, verb, agreement, "sir." Smile, nod, "yes, sir." They all came from the same organ inside me, an organ unknown to science at the time. Because what scientist would look for an organ found only in Black men who use their weakness to rise?"

— Louis, Interview with the Vampire (2022)

Marquess Araphen: Bah! Arrogant child! If she had but shed a single tear, I would have granted her request. We Lycian nobles will never understand those prideful savages.
Rath: ... ... Are those your true feelings toward the nomads of Sacae, milord?
Marquess Araphen: What? Oh, Rath! I didn’t see you there. My comments do not reflect on you. You are my captain. I’m proud of your service.
Rath: Of course. As long as we bend our knee to you, you care not where we’re from. But when an equal comes from my lands? What conceit.
Marquess Araphen: Rath! How can you speak to me like that? I have treated you well, have I not? I have paid you well. I have treated you better than your kind deserves.
Rath: You will never understand. My service ends here.

— Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade

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