“Prejudice is a disease we can never get rid of”. Discuss.

Yes, I agree that prejudice is indeed a disease we can never get rid of. According to dictionary.com, prejudice is ‘an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason’. A disease, in this context, is something that is unpleasant and long-lasting. There are a many ways in which prejudice occurs. It can exist based on differences in races, sexes, nationalities, groups, religious affiliations, church affiliations, educational levels, and so on. For a person’s judgments to be true, it should not be based on "nothing." If one person decides that another is doing something wrong or suspicious, it should be because of his respective actions rather than because of simply dressing a certain way, for example. However, is this always possible for all to follow?

A quote on prejudice (by Edward Roscoe Murrow, 31 December 1955) says that “Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.” I totally agree with this since I also believe that prejudice is not something that we can totally destroy. For example, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Abraham Lincoln fought against the prejudice of black people by the whites in America. However, studies have shown that prejudice of the blacks still exist today, even though to a much smaller extent.

References:
http://www.dictionary.com
http://www.pursuingthetruth.org/sermons/files/prejudice.htm
http://www.quotegarden.com/prejudice.html