quotations about prejudice
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
HARPER LEE
Go Set a Watchman
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. FIELDS
The Saturday Review, January 28, 1967
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN
Following the Equator
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
JOHN WESLEY
letter to Joseph Benson, October 5, 1770
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.
DALE CARNEGIE
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
JASPER FFORDE
The Fourth Bear
The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry.
GREGORY BENFORD
Deeper than the Darkness
Even if prejudice magically ceased today, the burden of the past would remain.
EVELYN B. PLUHAR
Beyond Prejudice
Remember, when the judgment's weak,
The prejudice is strong.
KANE O'HARA
Midas
Acquaintance softens prejudice.
AESOP
"The Fox and the Lion", Aesop's Fables
Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice; argument cannot do the work of instruction any more than blows can take the place of sunlight.
W. MILDMAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
MUHAMMAD ALI
attributed, 1000 Pocket Positives
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words
The law understands the implacable nature of prejudice. It acknowledges that prejudiced judges ought not sit on a given case, although most prejudiced judges are too prejudiced to recognize or admit their prejudice and to remove themselves. To get a prejudiced judge off a case is like prying a tooth out of a rabid gorilla.
GERRY L. SPENCE
How to Argue and Win Every Time
It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
attributed, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
MARK TWAIN
Innocents Abroad
Prejudice is the glass through which most things are seen and judged.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims