Quotations about Prejudice

by 3loomi Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:28 am

Weare each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, thesmart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to developprejudices. It is noble to rise above them. ~Author Unknown

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ~Merry Browne

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test oftolerance comes when we are in the majority. ~Ralph W. Sockman

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are allformed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other'sfolly - that is the first law of nature. ~Voltaire

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself. ~From a Winston advertisement

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ~Oscar Wilde

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ~Wayne W. Dyer

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever wetruly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us. ~RichardCowper

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ~Countess of Blessington

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the samerace, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice bynoon. ~George Aiken

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminateprejudices - just recognize them. ~Edward Roscoe Murrow, 31 December1955

If your lens is prejudice, you're wearing the wrong prescription. ~Carrie Latet

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. ~Henry David Thoreau

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so muchattention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shapeof our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each ofus as complex human beings. ~Franklin Thomas

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together. ~Ralph W. Sockman

Prejudice is all in your head. ~As seen on a button at evolvefish.com

A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to producesome fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. ~Carl T. Rowan

If only closed minds came with closed mouths. ~As seen on a button at evolvefish.com

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

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. ~Albert Einstein

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~Nelson DeMille

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ~William Hazlitt

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Attributed to both Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. ~Ernest Dimnet

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 aminvisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ~RalphEllison, The Invisible Man, 1952

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 enoughfor me; he can't be any worse. ~Mark Twain

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

If you judge people you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kindof hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices. ~Harry Bridges

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. ~William Penn

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let usput aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, orreligion. ~John Comenius, 17th century philosopher