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“The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.”

People Thinking Art Enemy Prejudice Delight Charm Seeming

Book:Friendship, a Story

Source: Friendship, a Story

“Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.”

Seems Enemy Class Impossible Ambition Prejudice Selfish Making Money Despised Grabbing Impossible Love Selfish Ambition

Book:In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

“The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.”

Knows Men Trying Children Ideas States Lost Natural Freedom Enemy Break Mankind Prejudice Proof Chains Length Odds Men Women Controversial Try Again Against All Odds

Author:John Quincy Adams

“The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.”

Men Enemy Laughing Prejudice Inevitable Reasoning Scorn Simpletons

Book:Letters from prison

Source: Letters from prison

“Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.”

“The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.”

Ideas Spirit Justice Enemy Plans Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Obsession Chiefs Alternatives New Ideas Inability Ideological

Author:Lewis Mumford

“It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.”

Helping Enemy Impossible Vote Prejudice Reform Buying

Book:Practical Agitation

Source: Practical Agitation

“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”

Inspirational Truth Time Inspiring Enemy Humility Truth Is Prejudice Constant Companion

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“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).”

“Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.”

War Race Christianity Enemy Struggle Dangerous Civilization Disease Roots Prejudice Democratic Western Civil War Decency Western Civilization

Author:Mordecai