Quotes about Prejudice

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.

We give people political labels, sexual labels, and religious labels. But in the process, we strip them of their individuality and complexity. Prejudice is pre-judging. It's assuming that bad stories end badly, but Jesus is in the business of turning bad beginnings into happily ever afters. ... God cannot give up on you. It's not in His nature. His goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life. All you have to do is turn around. All you have to do is crash the party!

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.

A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.

It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.