Prejudice Quotes · Page 23

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

— Ray Floyd

I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story…

— Jack Ma

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

— Maya Angelou

Narrow minded people piss me the fuck off. Stop being prejudice and thinking something is like this when it aint.

— Anonymous

The fact is that a ghastly class prejudice defines our response to the Indian Diaspora.

— Barkha Dutt

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

— Chen Shui-bian

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

— Lavrenti Lopes

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace…

— Stevie Wonder

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot…

— Carly Fiorina

There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind…

— Shirley Chisholm

As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice…

— Gwendoline Christie

“This book would be a great addition to a classroom library, especially considering its emphases on timeless and critical topics like discrimination…

— Sharon Lovejoy

...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was…

— Dan Brown

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It…

— Katherine Dunham

Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are…

— George Berkeley

Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Afterlight Sonnet Forget about afterlife, focus on afterlight, light that is left behind, by your deeds of life. We need to paint…

— Abhijit Naskar

I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules.…

— Margaret Mead

“It must appear to every one (...) a matter of the greatest surprise, to observe the universal prevalence of prejudice and custom…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from…

— Frances Wright

When we understand that we are a human race, what affects you affects me, what affects her affects you and so on…

— Queen Latifah

How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel…

— John Burroughs

The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism…

— Walpola Rahula

Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust…

— H. G. Wells

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

— Nicholas D. Kristof

I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst…

— Gary Lineker

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

— Pearl S. Buck

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Sri Aurobindo

“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

— Thurgood Marshall

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are…

— Josephine Baker

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest…

— Bear Grylls

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with…

— Rajneesh

It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out…

— Adam Smith

“When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.”

— Sondra Perl