Quotes About Prejudice

What gets to you is the everyday ignorance

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is, how we tick and how our world ticks, how the whole thing just is.

Consciously or unconsciously, we carry around concepts of "us" and "them," "right" and "wrong," "worthy" and "unworthy." In this framework, there's not much room for a middle ground; everything is at one pole or another. When groups of people or whole nations get together around these concepts, they can become hugely magnified, which may result in large-scale suffering: discrimination, oppression, war.

If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've always been annoyed by that.

I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

White is an attitude.