An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.
~ Jewish Proverb
I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.
~ Bishop Desmond Tutu
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.
~ Dick Gregory
It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
~ James Baldwin
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.
~ Sydney Smith
Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?
~ Groucho Marx
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.
~ Charles Curtis
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
~ William Hazlitt
Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.
~ John Wesley
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
~ Edward R. Murrow
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
~ Mark Twain
Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
~ A. Eustace Haydon
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
~ H. L. Mencken
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
~ Pearl Buck
Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized racism that leads some victims at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self to embrace the values of their oppressors.
~ H. Jack Geiger
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
~ Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
~ Hideki Tojo
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.
~ George Aiken
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
~ Will Durant
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
~ Nat King Cole
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.
~ Martin Filler
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based.
~ Tyra Banks
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
~ Andrew Motion
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
~ André Gide
Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.
~ Charles Kennedy
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
~ Maggie Gallagher
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
~ Maya Angelou
