Prejudice Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

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

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

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.