Quotes about Prejudice
Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.
— Frank Herbert
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
— Samuel Johnson
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
— Edward Brooke
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
— Mark Twain
Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
— Bill Bailey
We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.
— Martin Luther
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
— Martin Luther
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
— Margaret Atwood
and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs.
— Edith Wharton