Prejudice proverbs

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◆ Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

- Charlotte Bront?99

◆ Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

- Michael Crichton99

◆ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe99

◆ Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

- Laurell K. Hamilton99

◆ It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn99

◆ If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

- Marcus Aurelius99

◆ Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

- Moderata Fonte99

◆ When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

- Dale Carnegie99

◆ Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

- Dale Carnegie99

◆ Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

- Leo Buscaglia99

◆ You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

- Wendelin Van Draanen99

◆ That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

- Kofi Annan99