Quotes About Prejudice

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.

Those of little faith are of little hatred.

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats

It's probably easier for rappers as far as a respect level. 'Cause with singers, the powers that be tend to feel that we're stupid.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.

I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

I called the police, but you know how they are. Until it's dark, they won't even consider looking for him. If he were two years old, they might get their asses in gear, but they think every black kid able to talk is mixed up with a gang.

The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.