Prejudice Quotes

Prejudice Quote of the day

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country.

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.