Quotes about Prejudice

Once they knew she had been working for a doctor, the eye rolling and tooth sucking was enough to make clear their scorn. And nothing Cee remembered—how pleasant she felt upon awakening after Dr. Beau had stuck her with a needle to put her to sleep; how passionate he was about the value of the examinations; how she believed the blood and pain that followed was a menstrual problem—nothing made them change their minds about the medical industry.

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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.

My reputation was that I had bad BO, and I was poor, and I was ugly.

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.