Prejudice Quotes

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

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you wi...

Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which...

As you, my fans, know I’m scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also kn...

Hate obscures all distinctions.

We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoeve...

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you

Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, temptin...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...

There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we t...

In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poet...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prej...

Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties, he said.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the...

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures b...

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after ...

They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pre...

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see...

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see...

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see...

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them...

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are...

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so har...

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in wha...

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.