To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

...the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

I know the moment we’re in; you know the moment we are in. I know the stakes; you know the stakes. This is far from over. And finally, we’re confronting the stains of what remains — the deep stain on the soul of the nation: hate and white supremacy [...] that hate never goes away. It never – I thought — in all of the years I’ve been involved, I thought once we got through it, it would go away. But it doesn’t; it only hides. It only hides until some seeming-legitimate person breathes some oxygen under the rocks where they’re hiding and gives it some breath.

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he is become their equal;

What happened to these children remains one of the biggest stains on our country’s conscience.

Every word is a prejudice.

It is a little unfair, I think, to criticize a person for not sharing the enlightenment of a later epoch, but it is also profoundly saddening that such prejudices were so extremely pervasive.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.

Prejudice is a burden which confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.