prejudice quotes

Albert Einstein: 

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein: 

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Charlotte Bronte: 

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.

Edward R. Murrow: 

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

H. L. Mencken: 

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

James Baldwin: 

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Walter Lippmann: 

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

William James: 

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.