Prejudice Quotes

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

William Hazlitt

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

William Hazlitt

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

Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

A. Eustace Haydon

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized racism that leads some victims at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self to embrace the values of their oppressors.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

Aeschylus

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Lord Francis Jeffrey

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

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

It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

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

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Edward R. Murrow

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

William Hazlitt

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

William Hazlitt

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

Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

A. Eustace Haydon

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized racism that leads some victims at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self to embrace the values of their oppressors.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

Aeschylus

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Lord Francis Jeffrey

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

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

It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

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

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Edward R. Murrow

By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is grounded in narrative or myth, Lyotard relativizes (secular) philosophy's claim to autonomy and so grants the legitimacy of a philosophy that grounds itself in Christian faith. Previously such a distinctly Christian philosophy would have been exiled from the 'pure' arena of philosophy because of its 'infection' with bias and prejudice. Lyotard's critique, however, demonstrates that no philosophy - indeed, no knowledge - is untainted by prejudice or faith commitments. In this way the playing field is leveled, and new opportunities to voice a Christian philosophy are created. Thus Lyotard's postmodern critique of metanarratives, rather than being a formidable foe of Christian faith and thought, can in fact be enlisted as an ally in the construction of a Christian philosophy.

James K.A. Smith

For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

CLAMP

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

Witches, warlocks, gremlins, orgres - they're just words,labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?

He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own.

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: "It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.

David Pietrusza

I have always thought foreigners with their unusual skin colours, mad languages and ignorant customs absolutely hilarious, and I think it's a shame that in recent years its become unfashionable to poke fun at them. I certainly don't think they themselves ever minded it.

It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as of those who make a point of proclaiming them insuperable, as an excuse to themselves for never joining in an attempt to remove them. Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share it themselves truckle to it, and flatter it, and accept it as a law of nature.

John Stuart Mill

The upscale neighborhoods in Blue Sky Hill weren't all lily white anymore, but you could be sure their kids didn't wear our kind of clothes, or get free lunches at the Summer Kitchen, or pick up used books and magazines down at the Book Basket store, or go to the public school. These days it wasn't about what color you were, but how much money you had. The same, only different. It was still people not wanting to be with people who weren't their kind.

'Not drinking?' Collin asked coolly. 'I only drink the blood of virgins,' Logan quipped. 'You must be dehydrated then.' A slow smile spread over Logan's face. 'A sense of humor... rare in a Templar.'

Lia Black

Murdered by a kind of fear that seeks to obliterate any evidence that the world is different from the way they want to see it, from the way they want to believe it to be.

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