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“Did you ever think our misfortune is directly related to your good fortune? Maybe the house your parents bought was on the market because the sellers didn't want my mama in the neighborhood. Maybe ...”
“His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.”
“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”
“People decide what you're like before they even get to know you”
“Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you dont see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the alive...”
“We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.”
“Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on catharti...”
“A counter to a jab is a left hook. Whats the counter to prejudice?”
“I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children.”
“Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.”
“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving ...”
“He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consolin...”
“Why, you may ask, didn't we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant idea of telling the farmers why he wanted the cow. The God-fearing folk would sell their cows to b...”
“It is founded on the worst instincts of mankind. At its best, it is intolerant and bigoted. At its worst, it is sadistic and brutal. Between these two poles it has its existence.”
“If a man fears dogs, he may beat one with a stick when he sees it. As is the nature of all creatures, that dog will bite him. And then he may tell everyone that he was right about dogs, that they a...”
“Prejudices are holes in people's general knowledge, filled with negative nonsense.”
“But I think tackling prejudices is as important as offering shelter.AdvertisementSimpson said she planned to encourage the Syrian women to have a coffee with their female neighbours.”
“Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties, he said.”
“The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were limited.”
“Still, it seemed to us that the main reason we were hated must be that we always lived by stealing. From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on me...”
