Best Racism And Prejudice Quotes

Their appetite is the same. Their motives are the same. It’s only their mannerisms and methods that differ.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

We must dissent from the fear.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

Race prejudice can’t be talked down, it must be lived down.

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

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

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It’s been a long walk.