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Quotes About Prejudice

What appears to be black on white to whites may appear to be all white to black.
~ Russell Ackoff
I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up... I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. (p52)
~ Russell Freedman
The mass of mankind, Burke implies, reason hardly at all, in the higher sense, nor ever can: deprived of folk-wisdom and folk-law, which are prejudice and prescription, they can do no more than cheer the demagogue, enrich the charlatan, and submit to the despot.
~ Russell Kirk
In politics we do well to abide by precedent and precept and even prejudice, for the great mysterious incorporation of the human race has acquired a prescriptive wisdom far greater than any man's petty private rationality.
~ Russell Kirk
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.
~ Ruth Benedict
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
~ Ruth Benedict
The old idea, or rather the old prejudice, that women are protected by men was so deeply ingrained in that society that they overlooked what was the most obvious, that is, that the weakest and the disadvantaged are the most exposed.
~ Ruth Klüger
The minute you meet some people you know you will hate their mothers.
~ Ruth Krauss
It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.
~ Ruth Rendell
I mean colored is red and green and yellow and blue. This skin here …" He held out a hand to demonstrate. "This skin is black! It ain't colored! It's black!
~ Ruth White
I pity the foo who kills all the Jews.
~ Ryan Boudinot
Appearances: People tend to focus on the outer appearances but it's the inner self that really matters. What you see on the outside doesn't always match what's on the inside. You might be something very special on the inside but people are so fixated and judgmental about what they see on the outside that they don't give you a fair chance and that's an injustice, a tragedy.
~ Ryan Pack
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
~ Ryan White
But then they were males, and therefore idiots about some things.
~ S.M. Stirling
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.
~ Saadat Hasan Manto
A man remains a man no matter how poor his conduct. A woman, even if she were to deviate for one instance, from the role given to her by men, is branded a whore. She is viewed with lust and contempt. Society closes on her doors it leaves ajar for a man stained by the same ink. If both are equal, why are our barbs reserved for the woman?
~ Saadat Hasan Manto
Kendi ruhunun pisli?ini bu kadar yak?ndan gören bir adam ba?kalar?n?n temiz olaca??na inanabilir mi?
~ Sabahattin Ali
Çünkü az?nl?kta kalanlar, çok olanlara nedense tepeden bakarlar.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Why, when we are reluctant even to describe a wedge of cheese we are seeing for the first time, do we draw our final conclusions from our first encounters with people, and happily dismiss them?
~ Sabahattin Ali
Bütün iyili?ine ra?men ne kadar anlay??s?z..." dedi. Sonra yüksek sesle ilave etti "Mü?kül vaziyette kalan bir insan için böyle hükümler verilir mi? As?l iyilik tan?mad?klar?m?za yapt???m?z iyiliktir; halbuki biz bütün hüsnüniyetimizi dostlar?m?za saklay?p bunlar?n d???nda kalanlar? bir ç?rp?da ve k?sa bir hükümle fena addediyoruz!...
~ Sabahattin Ali
Your ideas of good and bad are just a certain level of prejudice against life. The
~ Sadhguru
Belief is just like morality. People who believe something often think they are superior to others.
~ Sadhguru
Your ideas of good and bad are just a certain level of prejudice against life".
~ Sadhguru
Your ideas of good and bad are just a certain level of prejudice against life.
~ Sadhguru