Prejudice Quotes · Page 31

What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender.

— Jacob Weisberg

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are…

— Charles Kettering

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy.…

— Alanis Obomsawin

What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.

— Amala Akkineni

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

— Leighton Meester

I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship…

— Tim Holden

Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster…

— Susan B. Anthony

I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I…

— Taylor Swift

Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to…

— William Cobbett

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice,…

— Dale Carnegie

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it…

— Karl Barth

If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy…

— Karl Marx

When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances…

— Marcus Aurelius

A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's…

— Dan Savage

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not…

— Bell Hooks

“I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, "Harvard didn't want me." I said…

— Alan Dershowitz

But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned…

— Nicholas Metropolis

A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good,…

— Maya Tiwari

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be…

— Bernard Baruch

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

— Lydia M. Child

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

— Jane Porter

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

— Jennifer Ehle

I wasn't burdened by a personal history of prejudice. It's part of why I thought Barack could win.

— Valerie Jarrett

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and…

— Anna Julia Cooper

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

— Hal Duncan

“knowledge and fact meant nothing to people who were subjected to an adequate dose of fear and prejudice. This simple-mindedness was the…

— Annelie Wendeberg

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success…

— Major Taylor

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

— Buchi Emecheta

I think that there's still a lot of prejudice going on. I don't really think it's only an issue of football. I…

— Clarence Seedorf

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.

— Albert Einstein

My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for…

— Frederick Lenz

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Cognitive bias is the biggest self-imposed obstacle to progress, not only for oneself but in the end, for all mankind.

— Anonymous

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just…

— K. D. Lang