Quotes About Prejudice

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.

Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.'

Patriotism can results in racism

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there's so many real reasons to hate others.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.

Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.