Prejudice Quotes

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

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

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

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

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

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

I have no prejudice against male or female.

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

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

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.