Prejudice Quotes
Prejudice Quote of the day
It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.
Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.
Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?
You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is worse than Cancer.
Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?
Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.
They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else. I automatically started every interaction at a disadvantage.
What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.
Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.
Now, my sister has been called a lot of things:sweet, kind, a living Disney princess, but none of those things imply that she would ever date someone just for his money.
The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.
