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You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.
Author:
Ernst Zundel
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I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.
Author:
Philip Zimbardo
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
Author:
Francis Wright
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Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
Author:
Thomas Willis
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Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
Author:
Ryan White
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Author:
E. White
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The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
Author:
Byron White
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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
Author:
Henry Villard
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
Author:
Bess Truman
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The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.
Author:
Richard Thompson
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Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
Author:
Mary Terrell
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
Author:
Major Taylor
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I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
Author:
Major Taylor
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
Author:
Kate Smith
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The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
Author:
Joey Skaggs
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
Author:
Nina Simone
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I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.
Author:
Ernest Seton
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People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
Author:
Jose Serrano
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.
Author:
Loretta Sanchez
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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Author:
Elihu Root
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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.
Author:
Elihu Root
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In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Author:
Branch Rickey
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.
Author:
Rosamund Pike
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I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
Author:
Rosamund Pike
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Author:
Robert Peel
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We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.
Author:
Edward Olmos
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
Author:
Harold Nicholas
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Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.
Author:
Johann Most
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If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
Author:
Nelson Miles
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Author:
H. Mencken
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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Author:
Phyllis McGinley
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I have no prejudice against male or female.
Author:
John Lone
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
Author:
Oliver Lodge
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I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
Author:
Belva Lockwood
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Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
Author:
Maya Lin
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Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
Author:
Judith Light
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I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?
Author:
Denis Leary
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But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
Author:
Robert Laughlin
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Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
Author:
K. Lang
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IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Author:
Coretta King
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
Author:
Lara John
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If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
Author:
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
Author:
Hubert Humphrey
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We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
Author:
Charles Houston
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The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Author:
Tim Holden
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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Author:
Ben Hecht
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
Author:
Paul Harris
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Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
Author:
Francis Grimke
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In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
Author:
Benny Goodman
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Author:
Andre Gide
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The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.
Author:
Redd Foxx
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The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
Author:
Bram Fischer
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
Author:
Roger Ebert
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I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Author:
Clint Eastwood
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The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Author:
Clint Eastwood
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
Author:
Will Durant
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Author:
Charles Colton
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
Author:
Nat Cole
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Author:
Alexander Cockburn
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The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
Author:
Tom Clark
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Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.
Author:
Linda Chavez
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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
Author:
John Chapman
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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.
Author:
Pearl Buck
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When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.
Author:
David Brin
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The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.
Author:
Amar Bose
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Author:
Allan Bloom
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.
Author:
Sean Bean
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
Author:
Marian Anderson
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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.
Author:
George Aiken
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
Author:
Felix Adler
