Quotes about Prejudice

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vendor of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh; and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom of fifteen to a lady of fifty.

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

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

How very little a person knew about someone simply from looking at her. Yet how much people decided about others at a single glance. Herself included.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name was connected were rumors only,—noise, sayings, words; less than words— palabres, as the energetic language of the South expresses it.

Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. During this journey in 1825