Prejudice Quotes

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we wou...

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the...

Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–ho...

It is impossible to read through the reports in the Communist Press without realizing that they are ...

The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree ...

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up ...

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimu...

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will...

Miss Gates is a nice lady, ain't she?"Why sure," said Jem. "I liked her when I was in her room."She ...

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea...

But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The ...

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of Ame...

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

You are blinded,” said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, his ...

...but it's not so much having to repair the damage, it's more the attitude behind the vandalism, Ha...

It is not enough for a population or a section of the population to have Christian faith and be doci...

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from y...

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho...

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Did you ever think our misfortune is directly related to your good fortune? Maybe the house your par...

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belie...

A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.

I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists]

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'offic...

It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as...

Human reason reduced to its own resources is perfectly worthless, not only for creating but also for...

They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else...

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their e...

...when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wing...

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig...

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their ...

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate agains...

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Why, you may ask, didn't we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant i...

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

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with goo...

Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don...

We Pashtuns love shoes but don't love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respe...

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CE...

I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to liste...

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...

In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the...

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facili...

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

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about i...

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be jud...

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We...

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of mis...

...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things ...

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

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, ...

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becom...

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since ...

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color ski...

Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gav...

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so muc...

He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobod...

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradis...

Ignorance and prejudice and fear go hand in hand

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and wome...

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow...

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the fi...

Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more ...

Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, b...

For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search ...

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

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthi...

Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a det...

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

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, dri...

But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by anci...

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned...

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned...

And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, ...

A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and...

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.