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Quotes About Prejudice

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
~ Eugene V. Debs
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
~ Whitney M. Young
The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.
~ Julius Streicher
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
~ Carter G. Woodson
I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.
~ Chuck Berry
They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
~ Bobby Fischer
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
~ Ruth Benedict
Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.
~ David Irving
I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.
~ Ed Asner
With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.
~ Chuck D
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
~ Will Durant
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
~ Anita Hill
Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.
~ Alanis Obomsawin
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.
~ Denis Kearney
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something
~ Zach Braff
I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.
~ James McBride
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
~ Larry Wall
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.
~ Strom Thurmond
The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.
~ Redd Foxx
Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.
~ Ian Paisley
Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.
~ Nicole Richie