Quotes About Prejudice

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

One must live, act and think now, in this life, as if one were worthy of a hoped immortality. To be brief, find and communicate the truth, if possible. Beware of prejudice and utopias, of all dogmas, including those that are one's own. Live without submission and without compromise. For me, this is the ethics of the thinker and the foundation of what I mean by philosophy.

A blonde woman, be she dull or anything else, appears superior to any brunette.

Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.

Non mi sconvolge che metta su famiglia della gente platealmente handicappata, minorata e deficiente, mi turba che la metta su della gente apparentemente sana.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him

Numbers are not impartial and straightforward; they have baggage.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

We judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

Tal vez juzgamos demasiado a las personas por como lucen porque es mucho más fácil que ver lo que realmente importa

if there´s a beast, maybe he´s just a regular guy with a skin conditon or something. Maybe he just needs some understanding. Maybe we judge people to much by their looks because it´s easier than seeing what´s really important.

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Though they had been for years with Jesus, there was still much more of the old Jewish man than of the new Christian man in them. If they had been left to the freedom of their own will, they would probably have avoided the Samaritan territory altogether, and, like the rest of their countrymen, taken a roundabout way to Jerusalem by crossing to the eastward of the Jordan.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

That nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

quell'Austriaco un po' scansafatiche che progettava tanto lavoro per i tedeschi...

Most women have no characters at all.

Tenderness will win hearts so hardened that nothing else can move them. Truth spoken in love goes directly to the heart of the hearer and calls forth a kind response…. It overcomes prejudice and hardness.… It melts and wins where the most logical argument, the most terrible warning, and the severest threatening would produce no more impression than the falling of dew upon a block of granite.

Well-bred' ensured buckled noses, high-arched feet, a predisposition to madness, and ... an innate belief in our own unquestioning superiority.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.