Jasmine Guy Quotes

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

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

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

I do think that the worst thing that a parent can do is to teach children to hate—prejudice.

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

I remember I was in a San Francisco nightclub, and I started talking to some girl, and it was like, 'Hey, what's going on, what's your name?' You know, 'Where are you from?' I go, 'I'm from Iran.' And literally, she just looked at me and walked away.

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

It's not hard to look at our own world and draw parallels between 9/11, for example, and how Muslims are viewed or treated by North American culture since then. Just to see the way fear can breed hatred and intolerance for people who aren't the same as us - and that's certainly part of what's at the heart of 'Descender.'

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.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

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

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.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.

We are all naturally xenophobic.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

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

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own

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.