Prejudice Quotations
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| If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon. | |||
| - George Aiken | |||
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| We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. | |||
| - Lady Marguerite Blessington | |||
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| The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. | |||
| - Charles Caleb Colton | |||
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| Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. | |||
| - Nelson DeMille | |||
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| Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. | |||
| - Ernest Dimnet | |||
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| Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. | |||
| - Albert Einstein | |||
| Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. | |||
| - Albert Einstein | |||
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| I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. | |||
| - Ralph Ellison | |||
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| I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. | |||
| - W.C. Fields | |||
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| Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. | |||
| - William Hazlitt | |||
| Prejudice is the child of ignorance. | |||
| - William Hazlitt | |||
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| A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices. | |||
| - William James | |||
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| Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. | |||
| - Francis Jeffrey | |||
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| There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. | |||
| - Samuel Johnson | |||
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| I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. | |||
| - Harper Lee | |||
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| Criticism is prejudice made plausible. | |||
| - Henry Louis Mencken | |||
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| Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. | |||
| - Edward Roscoe Murrow | |||
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| O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. | |||
| - William Penn | |||
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| Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. | |||
| - Laurence J. Peter | |||
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| Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. | |||
| - Sydney Smith | |||
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| In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together. | |||
| - Ralph W. Sockman | |||
| The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. | |||
| - Ralph W. Sockman | |||
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| Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. | |||
| - John Lancaster Spalding | |||
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| If you judge people you have no time to love them. | |||
| - Mother Teresa | |||
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| It is never too late to give up our prejudices. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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| Prejudice is opinion without judgement. | |||
| - Voltaire | |||
| What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. | |||
| - Voltaire | |||
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| Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||