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Kane O'Hara When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong.
Mark Twain The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Hebrew Proverb Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Mark Twain Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Tom Hanks The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
Maya Angelou Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Daniel Webster Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Albert Einstein I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Mark Twain I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known.
Doris Lessing You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society.
Prejudice is ignorance.
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Prejudice is the reason of fools. - Voltaire.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.
Racial prejudice is a pigment of the imagination.
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
"Prejudice is the reason of fools." - Voltaire
"Prejudice is very human." -- Data
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world;
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
"Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand" - N. Peart; Rush
"Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand."
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, whic

 

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