James Parton Quotes

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

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.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

There are …, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

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.

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

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.