Wendell Phillips Quotes

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.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

Human prejudice—especially that growing out of race and religion—is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

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

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.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

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.

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.

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

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Prejudices save time.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.