Rosemary Mahoney Quotes

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudices save time.

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

Ignorance breeds fear.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

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.

Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.

When somebody's different, it's so easy to dismiss what people say because of what they look like. They really want to judge the book by its cover.

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.