Prejudice Quotes

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.

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one ...

Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language...

Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudice...

I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, ...

What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in s...

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't d...

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with ...

He knew that he, Millat, was a Paki no matter where he came from; that he smelled of curry; had no s...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers...

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that...

He hears but half who hears one party only.

Please don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that...

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them withou...

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

Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, I doubt if there ...

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated pe...

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Coun...

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Coun...

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of...

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

Why don’t they complain?""They do sometimes. But usually there's nothing in particular to complain a...