Quotes with prejudice

  • A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.

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  • Joseph Addison Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Will Durant History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Mark Twain The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
    Following the Equator (1897)
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Betty Friedan A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Nelson Mandela A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
    De lange weg naar vrijheid
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oscar Wilde Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Branch Rickey Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Charles Dickens He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Clint Eastwood I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
    Clint Eastwood
    American actor, filmmaker and musician (1930 - )
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  • Benny Goodman If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • George Orwell Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Kofi Annan Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
    address to the United Nations on October 1, 1963
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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