Quotes About Prejudice

It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family, ' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.

Racism is a disease of white people

Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.

Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you're trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil.

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah