Prejudice- Bigotry

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PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. (Charles Curtis, U.S. attorney and politician who served as the 31st U.S. vice-president, 1860-1936)
PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. (Edward R. Murrow, U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)
PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. (A. Eustace Haydon, Canadian Baptist minister, historian of religion, and recipient of the 'Humanist of the Year' award by the American Humanist Association, 1880-1975)
PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. (Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, writer and collector, 1780-1832)
PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of color, the most corrosive is the wound within, the internalized racism that leads some victims . . . to embrace the values of their oppressors. (H. Jack Geiger, U.S. medical doctor, and founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Born 1926)
PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt, English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)
PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. (Dick Gregory, U.S. comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, and writer who mocked bigotry and racism, 1932-2017)
PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: He hears but half who hears one party only. (Aeschylus, ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the 'Father of Tragedy, 525-456 B.C.E. )
PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY: He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. (Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright and librettist, 1707-1793)