Quotes about Prejudice

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

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

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

Once my family was taken, I became fully aware that my community matters less to some people. That we are treated differently because of the color of our skin or where our parents were born.

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

The Irish, who, at home, readily sympathize with the oppressed everywhere, are instantly taught when they step upon our soil to hate and despise the Negro...Sir, the Irish-American will one day find out his mistake.

No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world.

Added to the natural good qualities of Mr. Covey, he was a professor of religion—a pious soul—a member and a class-leader in the Methodist church. All of this added weight to his reputation as a nigger-breaker.

But there was no room at the inn; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.