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“Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.”

Problem Community Deals Moral Issues Ignorance Prejudice Mental Health Ill Lgbt Stigma Collide Blight Health Issues

Author:Stephen Fry

“Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.”

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Author:Richard M. Weaver

“There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.”

People Thinking Interesting Issues Danger Solutions Prejudice Immigration Our Time Fear Of The Unknown

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's absolutely how they should regard it. But it's heartening to look at the polls on young people on gay people, gay marriage, and sexual-freedom issues. They're terrific, and that's why the religious right is so desperately trying to lock in their current bare majority for prejudice: because their constituents are dying. They're losing votes every time the ambulance pulls up to the old folks' home. Let's hope it pulls up a little more frequently.”

“The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“It was a good script [Something New]. We have not seen an interracial issue dealt with from a black woman and white man's perspective in this way. And, usually, it's a black man, white woman. I loved the fact that it wasn't about the couple being against the world or the couple against the family. I loved the fact that it was her dealing with her own prejudices that came up, her own guilt, her own shame and embarrassment about what her peers thought.”

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Author:Sanaa Lathan

“Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.”

“What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others.”

People Thinking Trying Littles Individual Issues Please Waste Prejudice Being Yourself Who We Are Wasting Time Impress Projection

Book:AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself

Source: AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself

“Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue”

Thinking Kind Has Beens Made Important Issues Feminism Conscious Prejudice Feminist Bias Sensitivity Masculine Critique

Author:Clifford Geertz

“Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.”

“We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.”

Humans Deals Issues Rights Constitution Prejudice Human Rights Incorporating Basic Human Rights

Author:Chen Shui-bian

“I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.”

Thinking Issues Prejudice Bias Avoiding Viewers

Author:Dan Abrams

“Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.”

Today Born Study Issues Century Prejudice Fallacy

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.”

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Book:Long Walk To Freedom

Source: Long Walk To Freedom