“What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.” EffortPrideBirthPrejudiceAccidentsSweatBrows Author:Robert Breault
“Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.” PassionInterestPartyEffortOpinionClassParticularPrejudiceAffectionAdvancementPledgeSects Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.” MadeStillsPoliticalPassionIndividualNationsPartyEffortPrinciplesVirtueSacrificeTalentStandardsPrejudiceRemainsBoresCommunionPolitical PartiesContentionBadgesCountrymenRemnantsMagnanimityRancor Author:John Quincy Adams
“We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.” PeopleThinkingWorldFactsDiesViewsEffortOppositesPrejudiceTendenciesConform Book:Mortals and Others Source: Mortals and Others
“By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill.” PersonsMightCertainNextEffortAttitudeClearGeniusMassPrejudiceAddMinistersReachingMutualSentimentsPrimePrimitivePrime MinisterOutlookObstinateOpinionatedStandstillDeepest Fear Author:Uri Avnery
“The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.” PeopleIfsWorldHumansUnderstandingEffortPrejudiceUnionsVariousDeliberateExertionDeliberationPartialityConstitutional Convention Book:The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila
“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.” ThinkingMenSpeakDifficultEffortPrejudiceInstinct Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.” WellsLooksHeartMeanChildrenRealTogetherTimeHumanityCan DoEffortHealingTeachDiversityRespectHatredPrejudiceOur ChildrenToleranceHealLook UpNative AmericanDistrustTeaching ChildrenCultural DiversityChange Of HeartHeal The World Author:Leonard Peltier
“A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology.” WayHumansImportantIdeasUnderstandingEffortBehindsExistenceTalkingVisionPsychologyParticularDemandPrejudiceTraditionalBiologyNew WaysCritiqueOrientationVistasPhysiologyTerminologyNew VisionWay Of Talking Author:Medard Boss
“Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests either temporal or eternal, either material or mental or spiritual, that will conflict with the will of God when that will is made known.” MadeDifferentSoulLightSpiritualWaitingInterestEffortKnownStrangeMaterialsConflictEternalPrejudicePatientGods WillCommandTiesDefiniteBe PatientPathwaysPilgrimThose Who Wait Author:G. Campbell Morgan
“We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.” BeliefEffortGroupsPrejudiceReformPersistTaiwanEthnic Groups Author:Chen Shui-bian
“I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .” EffortSonExperiencePrejudiceImmigrantsBigotryAllowingIntoleranceSpurs Author:Bernard Baruch