Prejudice Quotes · Page 37

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

— Jose Serrano

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name…

— Zora Neale Hurston

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

— Anonymous

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out,

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true…

— Samuel Hahnemann

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

— Ralph Washington Sockman

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can…

— Spike Lee

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with…

— James McBride

Harvey Milk gave hope to generations of gay and lesbian Americans by encouraging them to live their lives openly and to speak…

— Bonnie Hammer

It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and…

— Lara St. John

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of…

— William Hazlitt

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is…

— Jane Addams

Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the…

— Joni Rodgers

When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes…

— Barrows Dunham

I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many…

— Albert Einstein

The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and…

— Anonymous

If I can show that a woman can run 26 miles, and run it well -- stride for stride with the men…

— Bobbi Gibb

“Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The hardest task for the historian… is to consider the evidence without prejudice. We all have prior agendas and tend to find…

— Christopher Evans

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them…

— R. Scott Bakker

“Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.”

— Charles S. Weinblatt

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

— Bess Truman

From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.

— Mike Pence

Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD]…

— Huey Long

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

— Linda Ellerbee

Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.

— Anonymous

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

— Mark Twain

“Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.”

— DaShanne Stokes

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most…

— Peter Mullan

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

— Amelia Bloomer

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national…

— Branch Rickey

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

— Herman Melville

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

— John Edgar Wideman

We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And…

— Esmeralda Santiago