Quotes About Prejudice

Prejudice is the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

— Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

It’s only big enough people who can afford, occasionally, to be untrammeled by ordinary prejudice.

— Han Suyin

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the system under which he lives.

— Solomon Northrup

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

— David Ruggles

Oh, the length and breadth, the height and depth, the cruelty and the irony of prejudice which can so belittle human nature.

— William G. Allen

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

— Charles Waddell Chestnutt

The ignorant are always prejudiced and the prejudiced are always ignorant.

— Charles Victor Roman

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

— Arthur Alfonso Schomburg

If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

— William Pickens

Horrible thing, prejudice . . . does you all up.  Puffs you all out of shape.

— Rudolph Fisher

 [Bigotry’s] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

— Bayard Rustin

Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open.

— Thomas R. Dewar

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

— Henry David Thoreau

He prided himself on being a man without prejudice, and this itself is a very great prejudice.

— Anatole France

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

— William Hazlitt

Our nation’s long neglect of minorities whose skin is dark is perhaps only a little worse than our neglect of another minority whose hair is white.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

— John F. Kennedy

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

I’m an equal-opportunity bigot.  I offend everyone!

— Blanche Knott

A chip on the shoulder is a sure indication that there is more wood higher up.

— Aldous Huxley