Prejudice Quotes - Page 19

• Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Cures, Trade

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• The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

  Amelia Bloomer

  Injustice, Intemperance, Emancipation

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• Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.

  William McChesney Martin

  Pyramids, Mind, Tiny

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• I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Cutting, Climbing, Views

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.286, Penguin

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• We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Children, Race, Circles

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• Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

  Francis James Grimke

  Race, Racism And Prejudice

  Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

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• If I can show that a woman can run 26 miles, and run it well -- stride for stride with the men -- that is going to throw all the rest of the prejudices and all the misconceptions and all of the so-called reasons for keeping women down that have existed for the past how many centuries? Centuries of this stuff! And so I sort of chuckled to myself and thought, 'Oh, this is going to be fun! I'm going to turn the whole thing on its head.'

  Bobbi Gibb

  Running, Fun, Men

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• Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Squirrels, Perspective, Bird

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• It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, Hands, Noble

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• Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Stress, Past

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• Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wish, May

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.323

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• The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross money-getting concern: these particular aspects of a vast and voracious concentration upon profits are so many illustrations of our sinning confusion of values.

  Russell Kirk

  Christian, Illustration, Agriculture

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.140, Regnery Publishing

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• Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Disease

  Lady Gaga‏ @ladygaga, twitter.com. June 09, 2010.

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• It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Should Have, Racism, Poverty

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• 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

  Agency, Tvs, Advertising

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• Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart.

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Understanding, Humanity

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• Together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

  Michael Jackson

  Together We Can, Racism, World

  "Flashback: Michael Jackson's speech to Exeter City back in 2002" by Ronaldo Assis De Moreira, bleacherreport.com. June 26, 2009.

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• The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

  Barney Frank

  Reality, Antidote

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• Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Thinking, Brave

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun,
  for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls.
  Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice,
  in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen
  and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

  Paracelsus

  Fall, Ocean, Ignorance

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• Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Echoes, Play

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• The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Humanity, Stronger, Divisiveness

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.159, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold

  Peter Singer

  Father, Distance, Views

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.

  Paulo Coelho

  Usual, World, Steps

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• Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

  Michael Jackson

  Ignorance, Hatred, Boundaries

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