Prejudice Quotes

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

We must dissent from the fear.

The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

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.

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

All the dreams you show up in are not your own.

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

The way that other people judge me is none of my business.

Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

Me can't be prejudice. Me can't me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you can't be righteous.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past