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Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Prejudice'

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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Ben Hecht, American Writer (1894-1964)
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Eric Hoffer, American Writer (1902-1983)
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Tim Holden, American Politician (1957-  )
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, American Lawyer (1895-1950)
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician (1911-1978)
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, -
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
Lara St. John, Canadian Musician (1971-  )
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, American Educator (1890-1976)
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King, American Activist (1927-2006)
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Joseph Lancaster, English Educator (1778-1838)
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
K. D. Lang, Canadian Musician (1961-  )
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Christopher Lasch, American Historian (1932-1994)
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
Robert B. Laughlin, American Physicist (1950-  )
I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?
Denis Leary, American Actor (1957-  )
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
Judith Light, American Actress (1949-  )
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
Maya Lin, American Architect (1959-  )
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
Belva Lockwood, American Lawyer (1830-1917)
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
Oliver Joseph Lodge, English Physicist (1851-1940)
I have no prejudice against male or female.
John Lone, American Actor (1952-  )
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley, American Author (1905-  )
 
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