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“If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.”

Ifs Giving Guy Music Musician Prejudice Jazz Selling African American Anti Racist

Author:Benny Goodman

“I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Important Song Prejudice Good Things Who I Am

Author:Richard Thompson

“If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.”

Ifs Mind May Able Race Prejudice Impulse

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.”

Ifs Years Firsts May Peace Easier Prejudice Reactions Bias Accused Being Accused

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.”

Ifs Want Certain Fine Prejudice Disagree Unbiased

Author:Neil Cavuto

“If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.”

Ifs Should Heart Country Hands Values Protect Prejudice Democratic Unity Humble Our Country Cherish Taiwan Democratic Values

Author:Chen Shui-bian

“We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that things are done well by people other than ourselves. "The Japanese are a remarkable little people," we say, as if we were doing them a favor. "He is an Arab, but you ought to hear him play the zither." Why "but"?”

People Ifs Wells Littles Done Play Facts Born Ought Prejudice Favors Remarkable

Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

“I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."”

Ifs Thinking World Said Girl Skins Prejudice Fingers Lips Changing The World

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.”

Ifs Love Life Action Meditation Pride Pure Prejudice Absolutes Evolve Love Life Within You

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.”

Ifs Mind Heart Names Virtue Balance Reflection Deserve Accounts Prejudice Dear Arise Desirable Rise Above Endeavour

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

“I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.”

Ifs Feelings Family Pride Shapes Prejudice Connected Picturesque

Book:Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides

Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides

“If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.”

Ifs Firsts Names Christ Church Duty Prejudice Servant Customs Whim Hereditary

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915

“Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.”

Ifs Thinking Prejudice Exposed New Knowledge Thinking Flexibly

Book:The Person In Psychology

Source: The Person In Psychology

“If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.”

“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

“I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.”

Ifs World Lasts Young Chance Risk Serious Prejudice Convinced Daring Refusal Make Me Happy Young Ladies

Author:Elizabeth Bennett

“The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.”

Ifs Men Law Opinion Virtue Prejudice Public Opinion

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.”

People Ifs Knows Way Ends Age Lost Dark Internet Offers Prejudice Versions Eras Shifting Dark Ages

Author:Michael Crichton

“You will be favourable to Burr, and so must fail because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth, Washington the greatest man that ever lived, Burr the wickedest, and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.”