Quotes about Prejudice
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
— Oscar Wilde
the greatest dissipater of our relationship to God is personal sympathy and personal prejudice.
— Oswald Chambers
They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
— Genesis 43:32
And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
— Esther 3:6
The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.
— Proverbs 14:20
But the people there refused to welcome Him, because He was heading for Jerusalem.
— Luke 9:53
“Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.
— John 1:46
“You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
— John 4:9
He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
— Acts 10:28
and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
— Acts 11:3
When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
— Acts 28:4
If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”
— James 2:3