(255 quotes found)
“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
“In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.”
Bob Gibson
“Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason”
John Wesley
“Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error”
Robert Hall
“Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.”
Charles Curtis
“The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.”
Bill Clinton
“That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.”
Charles Bukowski
“Knowledge—that is, education in its true sense—is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
