Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard

Quote by Adlai E Stevenson

Topics: Ignorance Quotes, Prejudice Quotes

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that...

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that...

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that...

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that...

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which...

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which...

We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.

We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be...

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be...

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that...

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that...

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that...

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that...

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of...

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of...

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never...

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never...

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to...

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to...

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an...

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an...

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)

When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air...

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air...

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed