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Quotes About Prejudice

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.
~ Laura Benanti
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.
~ Douglas Coupland
I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .
~ Fannie Flagg
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
~ James Surowiecki
People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.
~ Kathleen Hanna
Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.
~ Madeleine Albright
Moslem: people who believe suicide is a good way to get laid.
~ Scott Adams
I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.
~ Terry Pratchett
I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?
~ Lester Maddox
Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.
~ Bob Saget
There is no delete button for bigotry.
~ Tom Brokaw
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
~ E. B. White
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
~ Edward Brooke
Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
~ J. Nozipo Maraire
Nobody thought I'd be a great coach. I'm the kind of guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.
~ Rick Majerus
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.
~ Emilie du Chatelet
Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
~ Bertrand Russell
There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
~ Amy Sedaris
Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.
~ Lois Capps