A Quote by Adlai Stevenson I

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Adlai Stevenson I

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Adlai Stevenson I
American - Politician
October 23, 1835 - June 14, 1914

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

Joe Nichols

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

Kofi Annan

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Prejudice is ignorance.

Michael Jackson

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

William Hazlitt

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Jim Rohn

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Josh Billings

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

Spencer W. Kimball

Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

Samantha Power

I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

Harry Hay

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.