John Kendrew Quotes

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.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

I think people feel like other people are very different from them... And that people who are different from them are actually sort of unworthy of the same rights or empathy. I don't understand that.

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons.

One thing I do know, you can't change hatred by showing those people that they're wrong about us.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

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

Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

All around the world, there is corruption, tribalism and division, as many find it easier to pick on those that are different, which is why we need to hold tightly to the good in this world.

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

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

You should never assume about someone.