Quotes about Prejudice

What do you call the weak point? He paused. The fact that the average American looks down on his wife.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I condemn racism on all levels, whether personal or systemic.

God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.

The qualities of mongrels are rarely admirable, and the mixture of the Arab and negro types has produced a debased and cruel breed, more shocking because they are more intelligent than the primitive savages.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast, ' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there would be no more wars, no more racism, no more hatred, no more anti-Semitism. We were wrong. This produced a feeling close to despair. For if Auschwitz could not cure mankind of racism, was there any chance of success ever? The fact is, the world has learned nothing. Otherwise, how is one to comprehend the atrocities committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.