Nat King Cole Quotes

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

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

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.

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.

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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

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

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

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Prejudices save time.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

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