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“We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.”

Source: Negro Makers of History

“Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.”

Law Justice Subjects Prejudice Resorts Mistress Whim Fickle

Book:Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

“When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.”

Believe Happens Justice Prejudice Virtuous

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

“I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my name remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.”

Source: Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan

“It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.”

World Should Different Speak Justice Study Tomorrow Prejudice Court Supreme Supreme Court Different Worlds

Author:Martha Griffiths

“Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.”

Law Justice Principles Progress Development Succeed Eternal Prejudice Errors Contrary Doctrine Immortal

Book:Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

Source: Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

“Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.”

Justice Opinion Judgment Prejudice Racial Justice

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.”

Men Justice Race Rights Conditions Color Eternal Prejudice Calm Scales Golden Dust Shakes Balanced Castes

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.”

Ifs Thinking Causes Justice Ability Prejudice Ruins Appeals Public Speaking Truth And Justice

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.”

Wells Form Interest Justice Virtue Dangerous Abuse Prejudice Affection Substance Exposed Resentment Bias Vague Seduction Arbitrary Jurisdiction

Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V4: the History Focus

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V4: the History Focus