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“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”

Children Education Ignorance Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Parenting Intelligence Educational Judgement

Book:Sketches and Essays

Source: Sketches and Essays

“When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.”

Fighting Social Justice Ignorance Social Justice Pet Speaking Out Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Eva Longoria

“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”

Inspirational Humor Ignorance Humorous Management Social Justice Ignorant Malady Ignorance Is Bliss Stupidity And Ignorance Knowledge And Ignorance Being Ignorant

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.”

“That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.”

“Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.”

Want War Culture Fighting Peace Poverty Ignorance Disease Diversity Social Justice Peace War Ubuntu

Book:The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti

Source: The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.”

“To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.”

Firsts Political Culture Social Justice Race Moral Ignorance Diversity Social Justice Educational Improvement Reform Height Expansion Futility Social Reform Political Freedom Educational Reform

Book:Annual

Source: Annual

“Nothing is worse than active ignorance.”

Culture Justice Ignorance Diversity Social Justice Stupidity Active

Book:Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”

Knows Want Justice Ignorance Diversity Social Justice Investing Ignorant Blissful Ignorance

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?”

States Justice Ignorance Diversity Social Justice Absurd Temptation Resisting Resisting Temptation

Author:Vicesimus Knox

“There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.”

Inspirational Justice Ignorance Diversity Empathy Harder Social Justice Indifference Apathy Softness Indifference And Apathy

Author:Juan Montalvo

“It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.”

“The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.”

Firsts Justice Knowing Ignorance Diversity Social Justice Stupidity Realization

Book:The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967

Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967

“The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.”