Quotes about Prejudice

The wrong to the Negro is temporary, but to the morals of the white man the injury is permanent.

It is now long ago that I learned this lesson from General Armstrong, and resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Men think it lacking in humility and suppose that it is trying to teach those from whom it should learn, especially if the person in question is a woman.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

You profess to believe that "of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth"—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

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