Quote by Maya Angelou
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future

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

Other quotes by Maya Angelou

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Black History
Read Quote

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to man. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Technology
Read Quote

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Education
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Future
category

In this bright future you cant forget your past. – Bob Marley

Category:
Future

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our childrens classrooms and in their future. – Bob Riley

Category:
Future

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. – Euripides

Category:
Future

Were not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation. – Benjamin Carson

Category:
Future

Random Quotes

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. – Helen Keller

Category:
Friendship

Live truth instead of professing it. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Hypocrisy

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Category:
Sleep

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

Category:
Death