Quotes about Prejudice

“All colors will agree in the dark.”

“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”

“All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.”

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

“The most learned are often the most narrow minded.”

“Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.”

“I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.”

“He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices”

“Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.”

“Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.”

“Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.”

“A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”

“Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.”

“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”

“Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.”

“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.”

“Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.”

“It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”

“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”

“He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.”

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”

“For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices -- just recognize them.”

“We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.”

“Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.”

“Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.”

“I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.”