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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
-Proverb
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Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
-Duchess Abrantes
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
-Joseph Addison
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
-Joseph Addison
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Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.
-Gillian Anderson
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All colors will agree in the dark.
-Francis Bacon
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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
-James Baldwin
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A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
-Josh Billings
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
-Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
-Charlotte Bronte
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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
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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
-Edmund Burke
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
-John Jay Chapman
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
-Lord Chesterfield
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
-Shirley Chisholm
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
-Noam Chomsky
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Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.
-E. M. Cioran
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
-James Fenimore Cooper
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
-Quentin Crisp
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
-Marquis De Sade
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Books about Prejudice
