Prejudice Quotes · Page 37

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice,

— Johann Most

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

— Langston Hughes

The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.

— Steven Biko

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

— William Ellery Channing

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

— Neil Cavuto

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or…

— Andrew Solomon

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

— Gore Vidal

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any…

— Joe Mantello

The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity…

— Allen West

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we…

— Carl Sagan

[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior… The mere fact that a school…

— Clarence Thomas

“ 'Not drinking?' Collin asked coolly. 'I only drink the blood of virgins,' Logan quipped. 'You must be dehydrated then.' A slow…

— Lia Black

Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without…

— Rajneesh

There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates,…

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

“Tis true, that We are here a mix'd People--of different Countries Dialects, and Denominations. But how ridiculous it is, to carry any…

— Charles Woodmason

“Imagine you’re diagnosed with epilepsy: what would you think if you weren’t referred to a specialist but taken to a psychiatrist to…

— Tanya Marlow

It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists…

— William Stanley Jevons

The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the…

— Edward Gibbon

I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try…

— Rosa Parks

“I asked another friend what it's like being the mother of a black son. "The condition of black life is one of…

— Claudia Rankine

“[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose,…

— Christine de Pizan

“It frequently happens that in proportion as we are taught to dislike persons and countries, not knowing why, we feel an ardor…

— Thomas Paine

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

— Edmund Burke

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— William James

“The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry.”

— Gregory Benford

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination…

— Lady Gaga

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

— Kate Smith

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

— Jon Lee Anderson

“Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy.”

— Bryant McGill

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

— Hosea Ballou

Always put yourself in the others shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

— Abhishek Tiwari

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather…

— Martin Freeman

“It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.

— Charles Kennedy

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

— David Suzuki

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything…

— Simone Weil

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

— Bonnie Hammer