“Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.” SelfOpportunityRoomsCasesTeacherDangerHumourLaughterConsequencePrejudiceDefeatDelusionScholarExposureScornDisgraceGood TeacherCapriceSelf DelusionTime Away Book:On the Pleasure of Hating Source: On the Pleasure of Hating
“As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.” MenI CanRegretDiversityIntellectualPrejudiceDefeatCommandSurroundHomosexualI RegretHandicappedIntellectual Freedom Author:Jane Rule
“I think the attitude needs to be: We need to defeat Liberals, defeat them, defeat them. Not accommodate them. Not try to persuade them. If they come along of their own volition, fine. We accept them. But they are the epitome of bigotry and prejudice.” ThinkingTryingAttitudeAcceptingPrejudiceDefeatBigotry Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).” PeopleWorldBelieveCountryEyeAmericaFightingOpportunityNationsBlackWhiteKnownEnemyPovertyRacismBuiltHatredPrejudiceDefeatProfitRingsExposedChaptersHypocriteSlumsBlack America Author:Shirley Chisholm
“There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.” MenEndsStatesBeliefChurchReligiousDarkSecretAtheismPrejudiceDefeatPresidentialThriveReligious BeliefDespicableCockroachesSecret SocietyReligious Prejudice Author:William Howard Taft
“Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.” InterestOpinionMiddlePrejudiceDefeatEmployersMiddle Aged Author:Kate Smith
“Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.” MenWayDoeArmsPrejudiceDefeatComplexityFancyYieldAmbiguityAvariceBegetsComplication Book:The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two Source: The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two