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My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents. — Edward Brooke

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly. — Alice Childress

I am afraid, monsieur, you will have to kill me first, and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock. — Rafael Sabatini

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion. — Sri Aurobindo

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human. — Katy Perry

But your good opinion is rarely bestowed and therefore more worth the earning. — Jane Austen

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. — Jane Austen

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice. — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase. — Hiram Rhodes Revels

I will only add, God bless you. — Jane Austen

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it. — John Tillotson

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life. — George Jean Nathan

Prejudice creates blindness; it is too busy hating to think. No matter how justified it might feel, prejudice will shackle you." "But — Jonathan Renshaw

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin. — Muhammad Ali

Never allow doubt to roam unimpeded within you. When it arises acknowledge it immediately, and then exterminate it with extreme prejudice. — Noel DeJesus

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater. — Randy Shilts

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice. — Josephine Baker

When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause. — Marty Rubin

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. — Susan Sontag

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham

The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat. — Yanko Tsvetkov

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton

All Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice. — Shirley Chisholm

History is mostly guessing, the rest is prejudice. — Will Durant

Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity. — Charles S. Weinblatt

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. — Bess Truman

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. — R. Scott Bakker

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron De Montesquieu

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed. — John Fowles

It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. — Voltaire

Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived — Lois McMaster Bujold

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings. — Charles Lamb

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice. — Bertha Knight Landes

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. — Andre Gide

There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world. — Shekhar Kapur

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice — Lady Gaga

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor. — William Shenstone

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do. — Paul Auster

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — Bill Clinton

The true call of liberation of women is not in taking off their clothes, but taking off their prejudices. — Shannon L. Alder

Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth. — Gurinder Chadha

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women. — Kate Smith

England's a nice place if you're rich, but otherwise it's a fucking swamp of prejudice, class confusion, the whole thing. — Hanif Kureishi

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female. — Ray Floyd

The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were limited. — Alex Lamb

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. — Mark Twain

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid. — C.V. Wedgwood

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape. — Gerry Spence

Race prejudice is the devil unchained. — Charles W. Chesnutt

I only have one prejudice, and that is against those who are prejudiced. — Lance Greenfield

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her. — Jill Conner Browne

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines. — Stefan Molyneux

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me. — Henry Villard

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color. — Major Taylor

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. — Henry A. Wallace

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail. — Brandon Sanderson

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial. — Raheel Farooq

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices. — Oscar Wilde

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain. — Jane Austen

Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. — Chris Crutcher

I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring. The right man wouldn't ask me to. — Seth Grahame-Smith

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience. — Charles Bukowski

The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process. — Robert Kennedy

Certain names always awake certain prejudices. — Philibert Joseph Roux

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. — Roger Ebert

Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: "Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow. — Anthony Liccione

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you. — Elise Broach

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all. — DaShanne Stokes

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself. — John Galliano

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest. — Bob Gibson

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war. — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history. — Gary Weiss

Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. — Mina Loy

You know there's always prejudice in a revolutionary movement. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now. — Rupert Murdoch

Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical. — Gerry Spence

This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others. — Werley Nortreus

Never let yourself be swayed by emotions,' her mother had said. 'Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever. — Monica Fairview

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer. — Bill Jay

Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations. — Jack Levin

Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding. — Lion Feuchtwanger

Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things. — Josiah Tucker

Oh hang kitty; what has she to do with it? Come, be quick. Be quick. Where is your sash? — Jane Austen

Chiron said the word assist as if meant slap upside the head with extreme prejudice. — Rick Riordan

It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth. — Reginald Rose

The eternal wave of hate never stops. — Lilo Abernathy

prejudice unchallenged is prejudice perpetuated. — Christian Rudder

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. — Wendell Phillips

I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices. — Bill Maher

Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom. — Abdu'l- Baha

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes. — Jon Meacham

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. — Audre Lorde

Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed. — Jessica Fortunato

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry. — Mark Twain

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom. — Nnedi Okorafor

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. — Eric Hoffer