John Wesley Quotes

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

There are a lot of people - and time does this - who are going to be severely embarrassed for their bias and intolerance. And they're going to have to live with that; that's going to be their legacy. I refuse to have that as part of my legacy.

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

Wisdom subdues bigotry.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

Don't go to the dark side. Don't go bashing immigrants or Muslims.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.