Prejudice Quotes

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

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.

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.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

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

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

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.

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.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

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.

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

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

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.