Quotes and Sayings about Prejudice

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

Why can't they understand the way we feel?
They just don't trust, what they can't explain
I know we're different, but deep inside us
We're not that different at all

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?

At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f*ck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

James Royce: "The Christians and the Jews didn't blow up the Capitol or run planes into the Twin Towers. Muslims did."
Emily Rhodes: "No, sir. Extremists did. And persecuting innocent people won't make any of us safer."

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

I respect people of all sexualities; I respect people of all religions, all faiths.

I'm a human being before anything else.

I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.

Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth.

Imagination… its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Listen to the scientists! Listen to what the facts are!

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Tress considered herself to be categorically boring. She liked her tea lukewarm, she went to bed on time, she loved her parents, occasionally squabbled with her little brother, and didn't litter. She was fair at needlepoint, and had a talent for baking. But had no other noteworthy skills. She didn't train at fencing in secret, she couldn't talk to animals, she had no hidden royalty or deities in her lineage. Though her great-grandmother Glorf had once reportedly waved at the king.

"I kind of lost track of time..."
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved."

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

In my experience, it is unwise to live one's life guessing after signs and portents.

Let's not be superstitious - it brings bad luck.