Prejudice Quotes · Page 53

“It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an…

— Paul Rusesabagina

In a certain way we are all the same. Our defects and our qualities are what make us different from one another,…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in…

— Joe Biden

“Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin.…

— Victor Hugo

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you…

— John Jay Chapman

Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we…

— Aldous Huxley

There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and…

— Roger Bacon

In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without…

— Rajneesh

To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin…

— Leonard Peltier

In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and…

— J. Irwin Miller

A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but…

— Tim Minchin

The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by…

— Andrei Sakharov

Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets,…

— Allen W. Wood

The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and…

— Henry Clay

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and…

— Edmund Burke

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no…

— William Hazlitt

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning…

— Benjamin Franklin

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief…

— Thomas Paine

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail…

— George Orwell

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent…

— Thurgood Marshall

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open,…

— Adam Weishaupt

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on…

— Marcus Allen

Study history. Separate fears and prejudices from facts. Recognize facts from propaganda. Invest energy in fighting for what you believe in. Analyze…

— Mae Brussell

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…

— Lewis Mumford

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what…

— George Papandreou

For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all…

— Rod Serling

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you…

— Marian Anderson

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation…

— Isabella Bird

It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are…

— Stephen Fry

I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion.…

— Kathleen Wynne

Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be…

— Madeleine Albright

I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that…

— Robert Pinsky

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that,…

— Isabella Bird

I don't think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don't think people hate…

— Gene Weingarten

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty…

— Anna Deavere Smith