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...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
Oct 1, 2025
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
We must dissent from the fear.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.
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.
Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories... We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
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.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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