Prejudice Quotes · Page 27

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

— Christina Baldwin

“This is how hatred begins -- with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door.”

— Teresa R. Funke

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

— Alain LeRoy Locke

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

— Judith Light

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

— Henry Moore

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American…

— Paul Harris

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities…

— Frederick Douglass

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

— Anthony Romero

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and…

— Bertrand Russell

Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all…

— Pearl Primus

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own…

— Barney Frank

The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction…

— Pankaj Mishra

“I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions,…

— Terence McKenna

“...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth…

— George Eliot

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no…

— Rajneesh

I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of…

— Lady Gaga

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

There are many actresses that are working longer, because until you change the playing field and make it economically stronger for women,…

— Susan Sarandon

In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance.…

— Rupert Sheldrake

If you have a problem at that level where there is hatred, prejudice, and anger, that has nothing to do with the…

— KT Tunstall

Even as considering African-Americans, immigrants and other groups who may be marginalized in different ways, American Muslims are still one of the…

— Glenn Greenwald

As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“You do have one prejudice though. I looked back at her again from under the brim of my hat. "You don't care…

— Craig Johnson

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

— Betty Friedan

With the rise of identity politics, the expression of naked prejudice against members of a supposedly privileged group has become mainstream.

— Kemi Badenoch

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

— Rene Descartes

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

“If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is…

— Abhijit Naskar

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere…

— Oscar Wilde

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

— Dana Spiotta

An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.

— Ruth Manorama

“Brain thrives on assumptions, that ain't the problem, trouble begins when all thought ends at assumption.”

— Abhijit Naskar

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

— Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

— Chen Shui-bian

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

— Dorothy Dandridge

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

— Anthony McGowan

Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take…

— Hillary Clinton

I've done a lot of video games and stuff, and I'm getting better and better at it. I don't have a prejudice…

— Lance Henriksen