“A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's absolutely how they should regard it. But it's heartening to look at the polls on young people on gay people, gay marriage, and sexual-freedom issues. They're terrific, and that's why the religious right is so desperately trying to lock in their current bare majority for prejudice: because their constituents are dying. They're losing votes every time the ambulance pulls up to the old folks' home. Let's hope it pulls up a little more frequently.” PeopleShouldTryingLooksLittlesPersonsHomeYoungReligiousIssuesDyingGayLosingVotePrejudiceRegardMajorityThreatFolksCurrentsLocksPollsTerrificGay MarriageGay PeopleConstituentsAmbulancePull UpsFolks Home Author:Dan Savage
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.” NeedsValuesOrderFictionEventsPrejudiceCurrentsVersions Author:Bill Watterson
“I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way I can control the story you tell yourself from my book. Your own experiences, preferences, prejudices, mood at the moment, current events in your life, needs and wants influence how you read my every word.” WayWantNeedsDoeI CanBookMomentsStoriesInfluenceEventsReaderPrejudiceCurrentsMoodStorytellingPreferenceNeeds And WantsCurrent Events Author:Shannon Hale
“It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.” MenFirstsLongIdeasCasesHard WorkOughtCapableLong TimePrejudiceCurrentsNew IdeasBest WorkOlder Man Author:Francis Galton
“Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.” WantYearsAgeMilitaryConstitutionPrejudiceCurrentsVotingReplacementsCompulsoryMilitary ServiceVoting Age Author:Chen Shui-bian
“The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.” MindRunningForceBreakPrejudiceCurrentsDestructiveBarriersFuryUnstable Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)
“I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.” MindBelieveGovernmentLawOrderI BelieveRaceMoralBenefitsBasesPrejudiceInspiredNotionCurrentsEqualityDiscriminationBenignMaliciousRacial Discrimination Author:Clarence Thomas