Prejudices Quotes - Page 2

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced.

The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds.

Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.

This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice.

If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.

Come out, O lions, and shake off the ancient mysticism and prejudices.

If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

Accepting evil is worse than committing evil. You must – I repeat – you must, as a human being, stand up on the side of humanism, against barbarian inhumanism, for it is your action, that shall determine whether your children shall live in a world of peace and harmony or a world of chaos and discriminations.

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.

Mind is the Alpha – Mind is the Omega. There is nothing else in the pursuit of knowledge. And more importantly, there is nothing else in education. All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true.

The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.

Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.

Start working my friend – start working towards humanizing the world. Because the world needs humans – conscientious humans, not some dumb manikins, driven by prejudice and discrimination.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin

You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!

No God, Religion, Race or Nation is higher than the humans.

If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is worse than Cancer.

The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people’s beliefs as long as they do not advocate for prejudices, bigotry and sectarianism.

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom,' we make a mockery of human rights.

It takes a lot of confidence, and self-love and self-worth to realize that you are capable. And that you have every right to leave your lane, and to do things in the same way that other people do.

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

I might not have risen to destroy people's beliefs, but some beliefs do need destruction if the human society is meant to progress in harmony instead of sinking into the depths of illustrious interhuman conflicts. Meekness-induced prejudices have no place in the society of thinking humanity.

The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.

O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start walking with bold footsteps while eliminating racism, terminating misogyny, destroying homophobia and all other primitiveness that have turned humanity into the most inhuman species on earth.

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.