Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.
A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.
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.
You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [. . . ] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.
People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headway
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.
If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.