Quotes about Prejudice
Our great nation put a man on the moon, but it can't train its cops to distinguish between an ordinary brown-skinned brother and a criminal.
— Jeffrey Wright
People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.
— Desmond Tutu
In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
— Elie Wiesel
When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.
— Frank Peretti
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth, without making some other Englishman hate or despise him; English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
— George Bernard Shaw
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
— George Bernard Shaw
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.
— Isabel Allende
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
— John Foxe
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
— Leland Ryken
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
— Abraham Lincoln
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
— Desmond Tutu
It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated—hated for things we have no control over and cannot change.
— Toni Morrison