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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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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken, American Writer (1880-1956)
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.
Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier (1839-1925)
Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.
Johann Most, German Revolutionary (1846-1906)
If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
Harold Nicholas, American Dancer (1921-2000)
We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.
Edward James Olmos, American Actor (1947-  )
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel, English Leader (1778-1850)
I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
Rosamund Pike, British Actress (1979-  )
And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.
Rosamund Pike, British Actress (1979-  )
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Ezra Pound, American Poet (1885-1972)
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Branch Rickey, American Athlete (1881-1965)
In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.
Paul Robeson, American Actor (1898-1976)
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
Elihu Root, American Lawyer (1845-1937)
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, American Lawyer (1845-1937)
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, American Politician (1960-  )
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher (1788-1860)
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
Jose Serrano, American Politician (1943-  )
I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.
Ernest Thompson Seton, American Leader (1860-1946)
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
Nina Simone, American Musician (1933-2003)
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
Joey Skaggs, American Celebrity
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
Kate Smith, American Musician (1907-1986)
 
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