Prejudice Quotes

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

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

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

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.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

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

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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

Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

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

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

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

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.