Quotes about Prejudice

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

It is a sin to judge any man by his post

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Mr. Oscar Browning was a great figure in Cambridge at one time, and used to examine the students at Girton and Newnham. Mr. Oscar Browning was wont to declare "that the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that, irrespective of the marks he might give, the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. 'Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who, having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.