Prejudice Quotes - Page 24

• There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

  William Howard Taft

  Religious, Dark, Men

  Speech to the Young Men's Hebrew Association in New York, December 20, 1914.

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• ... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.

  Barack Obama

  Long, Sick, Pro Life

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

  Elihu Root

  Ambition, Perfection, Selfishness

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Arrogance, Behavior, Refrain

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• Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

  Anil Ambani

  Culture, Advertising, Aspiration

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• One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to make up the sum of the general welfare. And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty and humanity will ultimately prevail.

  Frederick Douglass

  Disappointment, Errors, People

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• 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

  Beautiful, Extraordinary Person, Imagination

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• The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, America, Would Be

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• In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking....capable of pity and laughter..appreciative of womem..involved in personal relationships...susceptible to physical impressions

  Louis MacNeice

  Laughter, Talking, World

  "Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay". Book by Louis MacNeice, 1938.

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• To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.

  Leonard Peltier

  Respect, Time, Children

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• Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Art, Healing, Practice

  Samuel Hahnemann, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1913). “Organon of the Rational Art of Healing”

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• In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Philosophy, Passion, Play

  Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons

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• The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

  Gerry Spence

  Stains, Indelible

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day". Book by Gerry Spence, March 1995.

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• When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

  Gerry Spence

  Winning, Justice, May

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day". Book by Gerry Spence, March 1995.

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• Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

  Gerry Spence

  Mind, Locks

  "How to argue and win every time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

  Josephine Baker

  People, Together, World

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• Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.

  Friedrich Engels

  Horse, Father, Stupid

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• The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Color, Stronger

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance

  David Brin

  Book, Character, Past

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• Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

  Mina Loy

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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• The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Feminist, World

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• On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront anti-Semitism, prejudice, and intolerance across the world. On this Yom Hashoah, we must accept the full responsibility of remembrance, as nations and as individuals-not simply to pledge "never again," but to commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Compassion

  Statement from the President on Yom Hashoah, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 08, 2013.

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• Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

  Roger Joseph Boscovich

  Philosophy, Science, Errors

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• If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Ideas, Silence, Listening

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1969). “Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, Issues, Feminist

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