Miguel Quotes

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

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

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

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.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

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.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

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

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.