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“Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.”

Certain Fall Situation Hatred Prejudice Bigotry Rise And Fall

Author:Jack Levin

“We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.”

“Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.”

Fall Survival Prejudice Ancient Barriers Stakes Irrational Miscellaneous

Author:John F. Kennedy

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

Certain Fall Literature Steps Prejudice Dancing Dance Falling In Love Affection Jane Just Dance Inspirational Dance Pride And Prejudice Pride Dance Love Dance Steps Dance Partner

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.”

Fall Interest Prejudice Combat

Book:Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings

Source: Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings

“To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.”

Thinking Knows Children Past Fall Asks Speak Sin Teach Regret Overcoming Prejudice Our Children Forgiving Intolerance Stereotype

Author:Beth Moore

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”

Source: The Stand

“I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delight, to be in turns the object and the victor of her remorse! Far be it from me to destroy the prejudices which sway her mind! They will add to my happiness and my triumph. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms.”

“We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.”

Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

“Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.”

Ifs Fall Tree Prejudice Forests Falling Down

Author:Chen Shui-bian

“Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder”

Ifs Persons Turns Fall Accepting Class Knowledge Learning Groups Influence Particular Shapes Prejudice Management Active Agents Tone Interaction Behaviour Stereotype Participating

Author:Peter Senge

“Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding”

Sometimes Happens Fall Understanding Animal Weakness Prejudice Wounds Faculty High Places Concussions

Book:The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick

Source: The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick

“Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice, in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.”

“In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.”

Ifs Way Should Different Matter Fall Sides Vision Cases Progress Position Holy Prejudice Scripture Different Ways Passages Obscure Holy Scriptures Search For Truth

Author:Saint Augustine