Quotes about Prejudice

There are three religious truths: 1) Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2) Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3) Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters.

All persons act from beliefs they are conditioned not to question, from a set of deeply seated prejudices. Therefore, whoever presumes to judge must be asked: How are you affronted? And this judge must begin there to question inwardly as well as outwardly. — The Question from Ritual of the Courtarena Guide to Servants of the Box

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

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.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.