PREJUDICE

Related Subjects: Bigotry, Contempt, Fanaticism, Ignorance

1. There are too few among us who are willing to forget completely what a particular person is a Negro, a Jew, or a member of some nationality for which we have no sympathy, and to judge him as an individual.—FRANZ BOAS, I Believe
   

2. He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.—ANATOLE FRANCE, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
   

3. I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.—CHARLOTTE GILMAN, An Obstacle
   

4. Can it be only a coincidence that the three races which have contributed most to our popular song—the Negro, the Irish, and the Jew—should be the familiar examples of oppressed nationalities, credited with a fine intensity of inner life and with passions less bridled than those of the more conventional American Anglo-Saxon?—ISAAC GOLDBERG, Tin-Pan Alley
   

5. No nation, no people, can long endure in peace and safety if racial and religious hatred and class bitterness set at naught Christian brotherhood.—CARDINAL HAYES
   

6. A common prejudice should not be found in one whose trade it is to rectify error.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

7. All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.—NIETZSCHE, Ecce Homo
   

8. All seems infected that th' infected spy,
   As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.—POPE, Essay on Criticism
   

9. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto?—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
   

10. I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
    He hates our sacred nation; and he rails,
    Even there where merchants most do congregate.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

11. Mislike me not for my complexion,
    The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice