In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of conversations and learn from each other in a way that...

Another human being, yet another I had never seen before. What did this one know? Was he happy? Was he cruel? Did he worry? The more I stared at his face, the less I understood...

That’s the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores–when we can ride past them at Fayette and Monroe, car doors locked, our...

No institution of learning of Ingersoll’s day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his own intellectual accomplishments, but also for his influence upon the minds of the learned...

It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have...

For even though the rest of the city–no, the rest of the country–starved and searched fruitlessly for work and slept in a humpy in the park, society’s finest could still squander their money however they...

Those who perpetrated such acts intend to sabotage what we are doing and prejudice us,

Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but possessing its own laws and claims, an existence of men growing out of...

Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!” schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen.

Why should each generation be brought up on the selective prejudices of the one before it? I believe that this is exactly the point of history. And not just reading or studying history but also...

I have always thought foreigners with their unusual skin colours, mad languages and ignorant customs absolutely hilarious, and I think it’s a shame that in recent years its become unfashionable to poke fun at them....

Hey you —All our fevered history won’t instill insight,won’t turn a body conscious,won’t make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothingto solve even as each moment is an answer.

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

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice...

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.

I don’t mind bigots. You’re allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children.

Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who...

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.

The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.

As for Sturridge, he comes across as quite possibly the most likable man to ever wear the Liverbird. The chicken teriyaki enthusiast has been defying expectations and unfounded prejudice since he arrived at the club...

Faith is the first step towards building the self-belief that someone, an invisible and invincible power, is taking care of everyone, everywhere all the time.

Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them — and what they should think about themselves.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with...

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

Why, you may ask, didn’t we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant idea of telling the farmers why he wanted the cow. The God-fearing folk would sell...

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

Is it your background, then?” Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. “That need not worry you. You’re a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me.””Yes, it does,” Kim said softly....

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The...

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world...

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most highly organized system of prejudices and antagonisms in existence. Everywhere in...

I’m just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold.

People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing’s changed. We still hate what we don’t understand.

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...

Severe mental illness has been likened to drug addiction, prostitution, and criminality (37,38). Unlike physical disabilities, persons with mental illness are perceived by the public to be in control of their disabilities and responsible for...

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

It’s very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase “the good old days” has...

…racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Actually, this is a poem my father once showed me, a long time ago. It has been bastardized many times, in many ways, but this is the original:The Cold Within Six men trapped by happenstance,in...

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

…she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.

Ich hörte, dass Karl May der Öffentlichkeit so lange als guter Schriftsteller galt, bis irgendwelche Missetaten aus seiner Jugend bekannt wurden. Angenommen aber, er hat sie begangen, so beweist mir das nichts gegen ihn –...