PREJUDICE

PREJUDICE - 1

“For though I am free from all people, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may gain as many people as possible. To the Jews, I became a Jew, in order to gain Jews, to those under law I became as under law, though I myself am not under law, in order to gain those under law.” – Apostle Paul – 1 Cor. 9:19,20 – The BIBLE

“You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late, / before you are six or seven or eight / to hate all the prople your relatives hate. / You’ve got to be carefully taught.” – SOUTH PACIFIC – Rodgers and Hammerstein

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted. – Frederick Douglass

Of all religions, the Christian should, of course, inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. – Voltaire

There is no king that has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. – Helen Keller

Is it possible for a bigoted intolerant person to be happy? – Gary Pulliam

Getting out of jury duty is easy.  The trick is to say you’re prejudiced against all races. – Homer J. Simpson

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me.   Don’t talk skin to me.  – Mahalia Jackson

Without forgiveness there is no future. – Desmond Tutu

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mohandas Gandhi

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

There is a reason that the Holocaust is the most extreme version of the rootless race hate in European history.  Classic European anti-Semitism was based more on the idea that Jews had killed Christ and were engaged in anti-European philosophy and financial conspiracy than on any measurable harm to Europe. No one could point to any Jewish massacres of Christians. – Thomas Keneally – Author of SCHLINDLER’S LIST        

As I would not be a slave, I would not be a master.  This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln

Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

There are no prejudices that the work of art does not overcome. – Andre Gide

PREJUDICE - 2

“Do nothing out of egotism, but with humility consider others superior to you, as you lookout not only for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.” – Apostle Paul – Phil. 2:3, 4 – The BIBLE

America owes much of its social prejudice to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the Colonies. – James Fenimore Cooper   

The underlying responsibility of the Holocaust lies not with Europe as Thomas Kennealy asserts, it lies with the churches—yes, organized religion—because they failed to teach and to act on the truth.  Intolerance has always been based on lies, fear, superstition and religious ideology.  The religions turned their backs on what was really happening.  They could have helped prevent it in the first place. – Gary Pulliam                                                          

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. – Aristotle

“I know a way out of hell.  Find a child, a child whose mother and father have been killed, a little boy about this high, and raise him as your own. Only be sure he is a Muslim, and raise him as one.” – Ben Kingsley as Gandhi to a Hindu murderer. – GANDHI – John Briley (Screenplay)

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat. – Martin Luther King Jr.      

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Prejudices, it is well known, are the most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education.  They grow there, firm as weeds among stones. – Charlotte Bronte

A great many people are convinced they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James                

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. – Voltaire

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. – Mohandas Gandhi    

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view.” – Harper Lee – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass               

Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in honoring the differences, not simply enjoying the similarities. – James L. Frederickson

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal

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“And he made out of one nation every nation of men to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of where men should dwell, so that they would seek God, if they might grope for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us.” – Apostle Paul – Acts 17:26,27 – writer Luke – The BIBLE

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present as inaccessible. – Maya Angelou – ALL GOD’S CHILDREN NEED WALKING SHOES

Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln

When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man, but when a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.– Bette Davis

Germans themselves are grappling with a conflict about this among their historians—how to fit this unique event (the Holocaust) into German history, into the German and European imagination. – Thomas Keneally – Author – SCHLINDLER’S LIST             

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. – Plato                    

There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. – Margaret Thatcher

When we are no longer able to change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. –Viktor Frankl                                      

Prejudice causes people to distort, misinterpret, or even ignore facts that conflict with their predetermined opinions. - Gary Pulliam

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. – George Bernard Shaw

Anger is not only inevitable, it is necessary. ts absence means indifference, the most disastrous of all human failings. – Arthur Ponsomby

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington

Anger is the condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind. – Anonymous   

We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.  We are cleaning up the air, but polluting the soul.  We have conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.  We build more computers to hold more information, butwe communicate less and less.– George Carlin

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“However, the undeserved kindness that he gives is greater.  So it says, ‘God opposes the haughty ones, but he gives undeserved kindness to the humble ones.’” – Disciple James – James 4:6 – The BIBLE

Prejudices not being funded on reasoning cannot be removed by argument. – Samuel Johnson

“I simply want to tell you there are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us.  Your father is one of them.” – Miss Maudie (neighbor) to Jem – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – Harper Lee

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literature dogma, we become automatons.  We cease to grow. – Anais Nin

More and more people care about religious tolerances— fewer and fewer care about religion. – Alexander Chase

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. – Voltaire

Abominations inevitably result when men use their religions to justify selfish pursuits and ethnic self-interest.  It is then that religion and prejudice emerge. – THE NATURE OF PREJUDICE – Gary Pulliam - Lecture                                          

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. – William Dean Howells

“If you were dying of thirst, would you refuse water from someone whose nationality you didn’t like?  If you were dying of hunger would you refuse food from a hand whose skin color didn’t suit you?  If you were dying from an illness, would you refuse help from a doctor whose race displeased you?” – BASIS FOR BELIEF IN A NEW WORLD - (Author, anonymous)                                         

Two things reduce prejudice—education and laughter. – Laurence J. Peter

Europe has pursued ant-Semitism consistently since the Middle ages, and has yet to repent of it. – Thomas Keneally – Excerpts – Author of SCHLINDLER’S LIST – 1993                                 

When atheists claim to be “offended” by the mere existence of silent prayer being allowed in the classroom, then all prayer is summarily censored in all schools, whether any atheists are present or not.  Atheists are never told to be more tolerant or to develop respect for the opinions of others.  Any person of faith is routinely portrayed as old-fashioned or anti-intellectual.  How sad that our culture is no longer respectful of all beliefs. – Gary Pulliam

One mad dog doesn’t make all dogs mad! – Unknown                            

Hitler said that categorizing was the greatest tool one can use to control people and set them against each other.  We should stop categorizing each other for all the misconceptions that it covers. – James Dye

PREJUDICE - 5

“For though I am free from all people, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may gain as many people as possible.  To the Jews, I became a Jew, in order to gain Jews, to those under law I became as under law, though I myself am not under law, in order to gain those under law.” – Apostle Paul – 1 Cor. 9:19,20 – The BIBLE

I have a dream that my four little children will 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.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. – Josh Billings

One cannot judge the Bible according to what men of the nations do who claim to follow its teachings.  Human destiny is fixed—It is not necessary to burn down the barn to get rid of rats! – BASIS FOR BELIEF IN A NEW WORLD - Anonymous

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. – Shirley Chisholm

It’s never too late to give up our prejudices. – Henry David Thoreau

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize this truth if it is to maintain stature as the American pastime. – Branch Rickey

Prejudice is a great time saver.  You can form opinions without having to get the facts. – E. B. White

“You’ve got to be taught to be afraid / Of people whose eyes are oddly made / And people whose skin is a different shade, / You’ve got to be carefully taught.” – Rodgers and Hammerstein – YOU’VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT – SOUTH PACIFIC

All color will agree in the dark. – Frances Bacon

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being.  No color prejudice like in Mississippi or like in Washington.  It was the first time I felt like a human being. – Paul Robeson

The very ink on which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. – Mark Twain

One thing I’ve learned is this – Never allow yourself to hate people because of the actions of a few.  Hatred and bigotry destroyed my nation, and millions died. I would hope that most people do not hate Germans because of the Nazis, or Americans because of the slaves.  Never hate, it only eats you alive.  Keep an open mind and always look for the good in people.  You might be surprised what you will find. – Erich Hartmann (Holocaust survivor)

“I am in favor of all prejudices.  I hate everyone equally. – W.C. Fields           

Freedom’s first stronghold is the mind, yet most people choose to be their own prison-keepers through false pride and foolish prejudice. – Gary Pulliam

PREJUDICE - 6

“For through the undeserved kindness given to me, I tell everyone there among you not to think more of himself that is necessary to think, but to think as to have a sound mind, each one as God has given him a measure of faith.” – Apostle Paul – Rom. 12:3 – The BIBLE

It is a very rare man that does not victimize the helpless. – James Baldwin

Racism is taught in our society, it’s not automatic.  It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. – Alex Haley (Author of ROOTS)

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. – John Wesley

“There is none so blind / As he who will not see. / We must not close our minds, / We must let our thoughts be free. / And every hour that passes by / You know the world gets a little bit older. / It’s time to realize that people lies / in the eyes of the beholder.” – Ray Stevens – EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL

Men do evil things so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal

In times of war, opponents use derogatory terms when refering to their enemies.  Racial terms such as whap, nigger, spic, slant-eyes, kraut, wetback, gook, Jap, camel jockey, redskin, all serve to dehumanize their foe.  This minimizes the guilt when killing them as an enemy and excludes the fact that they too are really human beings. – Gary Pulliam

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. – Thomas Jefferson

“You’ve got to be taught / to hate and to fear, You’ve got to be taught from year to year, It’s got to be drummed / In your dear little ear, / You’ve got to be carefully taught. – Rodgers and Hammerstein – YOU’VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT – SOUTH PACIFIC -

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell                   

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, they will be forced to deal with their pain. – James Baldwin       

“Maybe tomorrow we’ll all wear 42, so nobody could tell us apart.” – Pee Wee Reese (Lucas Black), speaking of Jackie Robinson’s uniform number. – 42 – Brian Helgeland – 2013

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor. – Albert Einstein

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken its toll. – Benjamin Disraeli

Find the good.  It’s all around you.  Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing it. – Jesse Owens

PREJUDICE - 7

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  Because you resemble whitewashed graves, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful but inside are full of dead men’s bones and of every sort of uncleanness.  In the same way, on the outside you appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” – Jesus Christ – Matt. 23:27,28 – Apostle Matthew – The BIBLE           

Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, areslaves. – Lord Byron