Prejudice Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

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

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

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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.

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

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

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

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

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.

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

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

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

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

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

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

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

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

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.