Prejudice Quotes - Page 3

• Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Writing History, Historical

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wife, Mistress, Reason

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.292, OUP Oxford

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• I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

  Major Taylor

  Patience, Perseverance, Courage

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  May, Fancy, Wiser

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.106

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• He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

  Charles Dickens

  Running, Eye, Two

  "Nicholas Nickleby".

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• Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Mean, Poverty, Discrimination

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• I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

  Loretta Sanchez

  Race, People, Support

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• We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

  Booker T. Washington

  Brother, Men, Color

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• Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Men, Common Sense

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.96, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Character, Journey, Men

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• They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Imagination, Phantoms

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• To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

  Samuel Johnson

  Weak, Has Beens

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons”, p.225

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• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.6.

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• Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Honesty, Hate, Integrity

  Television broadcast, December 31, 1955.

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• For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

  Luther Burbank

  Thinking, Rearranging, Thoughts And Thinking

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• I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Reason

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

  Anne Lamott

  Ignorance, Hair, Self

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• The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Done, Unions, Determined

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

  Ezra Pound

  Mistake, Stupid, Race

  1968 Remark to Allen Ginsberg, 7 Jun. Quoted in H Carpenter A Serious Character (1988), pt.5.

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• I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Boys, Play

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• What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

  Stevie Wonder

  Hate, Confused, Understanding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Moving, Believe, Pride

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Believe, Pride

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.327

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• There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Men, Two

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.211, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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