Prejudice Is Taught Quotes

#1. Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.

Michael Jackson

#2. When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?

Rebecca McNutt

#3. Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. We don't come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people's minds from those evils.

Kerry Washington

#5. Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and then only you shall be able to visualize the true core of religion.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Charles R. Swindoll

#7. Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Roger Ebert

#8. Like a blind man, unaware of race or religion, he quickly discovered that prejudice was often taught at the breakfast table.

Jeffrey Archer

#9. The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your prejudices.

Paul La Farge

#10. It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

#11. My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Edward Brooke