Quotes About Prejudice

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

TOLERANCE will teach you how to avoid the disastrous effects of racial and religious prejudices which mean defeat for millions of people who permit themselves to become entangled in foolish argument over these subjects, thereby poisoning their own minds and closing the door to reason and investigation.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.

We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.

our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught.

It is always convenient to invoke universalism when you are in the majority.

you may be committing an injustice to others by favoring him.

I recall how we were taught in school how far more civilized and wiser we were than those in the Balkan communities

Likewise, it is not possible to hold a situation in one's head without some element of bias.

people look for books that support their mental program.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women

facts never prevent the ignorant from jerking their knees into the groin of science.

Shouldn't those who were born to expect death be the sole subjects of gleaning?" went the popular wisdom. But it was bigotry masquerading as wisdom. Selfishness posing as enlightenment.

Sometimes prejudice can be slapped upside the head by tolerance.

Martwe dzieci stawia siÄ™ na piedestale, a te chore psychicznie zamiata pod dywan

Color shouldn't matter" I was always taught—and always believed. But there's a big difference between "shouldn't" and "doesn't." Privilege is all about not seeing that gap.

The index is supposed to keep the world free from cultural and genetic bias, but aren't there underlying factors that we can't escape? For instance, who decided that the first number of one's genetic index would be Caucasoid? —From the gleaning journal of H.S. Curie

Only idiots build walls.

Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls.

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.