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The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions 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 - for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling, episode The Monster
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Logan Pearsall Smith
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
Joseph Addison
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. Mencken
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill
Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.
Source Unknown
I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago.
Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
Samuel Johnson
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
G. K. Chesterton
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Heraclitus
Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
Laurence J. Peter
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Booker T. Washington
Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. Fields
There is no bigotry like that of free thought run to seed.
Horace Greeley
