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“They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.”
“Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to coloured people. Elizabeth smiles like she's talking to a child, although certainly not her own. I am starting to notice things.”
“A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?”
“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.”
“The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were limited.”
“A part of me understands the need to keep order, but another part worries that we are being led to fear the wrong things. It's just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were nev...”
“He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own.”
“I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.”
“Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.”
“Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?”
“How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!”
“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.”
“We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.”
“Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.”
“We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.”
“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.”
“It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.”
“Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized racism that leads some victims at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self to ...”
