Prejudice Quotes - Page 9

• You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging, and are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, Home, Loss

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

  George H. W. Bush

  Expression, Land, Racism

  Remarks at the University of Michigan Commencement Ceremony in Ann Arbor, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 4, 1991.

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• I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

  Herman Melville

  Thinking, Should, Rattlesnakes

  Herman Melville (2015). “The Confidence-Man: Works of Melville”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

  Henry George

  War, Trade

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Differences, Rejection, May

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.2, Kube Publishing Ltd

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• My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

  Abdul Kalam

  Views, Imagination, Optimism

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• Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

  Clive James

  Dirty, Cities, Names

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections; of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like.

  Karl Popper

  Past, Reality, Situations In Life

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• One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Stupid, Learning, Looks

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.255, John Wiley & Sons

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• I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  Law, Racism, Our Actions

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• There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

  Ernestine Rose

  Women, Reason, Elevation

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

  Albert Einstein

  Depressing, Time, Atoms

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• There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.

  Louise Thaden

  Women, Aversion, Pilots

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.99, University of Arkansas Press

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• Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.

  Cornelia Fort

  Girl, Women, Numbers

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• Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.

  Frederick William Faber

  Kindness, Men, Self

  "Spiritual conferences".

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• Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

  Hal Crowther

  Art, Successful, Order

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• An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.

  Ruth Manorama

  Rights, Racism, Community

  "Interview with Dr. Ruth Manorama". The Right Livelihood Award Interview, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. September 22, 2006.

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• Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is that that's the kind of country that most people want, as well, and that we all have prejudice, we all have certain suspicions or stereotypes about people who are different from us, whether it's religious or racial or ethnic, but what I think I found in the American people, I think there's a core decency there, where if they take the time, if they get the time to know individuals, then they want to judge those individuals by their character.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Religious, Character

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• I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Ignorance, Practice

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to know in our heart it's wrong. And we all want to remember that we are connected. And that any kind of racism is wrong.

  Russell Simmons

  Mistake, Heart, Racism

  "Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons". "Voices on Antisemitism", www.ushmm.org. October 25, 2007.

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• I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

  Dionne Warwick

  Racism, Defeat, Refuse

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• Prejudices are the props of civilization.

  Andre Gide

  Civilization, Justice, Props

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.10, Vintage

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• I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.

  Harry S. Truman

  Uncles, Hate, Men

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• I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

  Henry Bessemer

  Ideas, Practice, Long

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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