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Quotes About Prejudice

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.
~ Simon Greenleaf
There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
~ Major Taylor
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
~ Oliver Joseph Lodge
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
~ Jose Serrano
I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts.
~ Kathleen Wynne
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
~ Martin Filler
Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.
~ Martin Jacques
There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.
~ Tibor Fischer
I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.
~ Robert Pinsky
I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.
~ Joseph P. Bradley
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.
~ Deborah Ann Woll
When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.
~ Bong Joon-ho
There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.
~ Shekhar Kapur
That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.
~ Rick Perlstein
You can never judge any music by their audience. That's the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That's always been first and foremost.
~ Diplo
India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
~ Gary Weiss
For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.
~ Benjamin Watson
Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
~ Samantha Power
By being politically correct, you're closing your mind to a different point of view. Which sounds a lot like prejudice. Which is definitely not politically correct. See what I just did there?
~ Lisa Lampanelli
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
~ Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I wasn't burdened by a personal history of prejudice. It's part of why I thought Barack could win.
~ Valerie Jarrett
For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination, which helps inoculate them against the spiritual toxins they will almost certainly encounter as they come of age in our society.
~ Rachel Simmons