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George Aiken (top)
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


Unknown Author (top)
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


Lady Marguerite Blessington (top)
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
- Lady Marguerite Blessington


Charles Caleb Colton (top)
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
- Charles Caleb Colton


Nelson DeMille (top)
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
- Nelson DeMille


Ernest Dimnet (top)
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
- Ernest Dimnet


Albert Einstein (top)
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


Ralph Ellison (top)
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


W.C. Fields (top)
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W.C. Fields


William Hazlitt (top)
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


William James (top)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.
- William James


Francis Jeffrey (top)
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
- Francis Jeffrey


Samuel Johnson (top)
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
- Samuel Johnson


Harper Lee (top)
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
- Harper Lee


Henry Louis Mencken (top)
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken


Edward Roscoe Murrow (top)
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
- Edward Roscoe Murrow


William Penn (top)
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
- William Penn


Laurence J. Peter (top)
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter


Sydney Smith (top)
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
- Sydney Smith


Ralph W. Sockman (top)
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


John Lancaster Spalding (top)
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
- John Lancaster Spalding


Mother Teresa (top)
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa


Henry David Thoreau (top)
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau


Mark Twain (top)
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


Voltaire (top)
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


Oscar Wilde (top)
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde