William Pickens Quotes

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

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.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Of all the bigotries that ravage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. It has no basis in reason, it is not rooted in faith, it aspires to no ideal.

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

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

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

I have no idea how one stops one group, one race, from hating another. The hatred between human groups has never been cured, except by time.

I wanted to do away with these divisions—here German, there Jews.

Every type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.

Anti-Semitism

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Whoever kindles the flame of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.