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“What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Whole Race Mankind Prejudice Chaos Terror Punishment Barriers What If Artificial Scoundrels Crime And Punishment

Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.”

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Author:Eva Figes

“In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and intelligence are not concentrated in one sex over the other, nor in persons with certain accents or in certain races or in persons holding degrees from some universities over others. When we indulge ourselves in such irrational prejudices, we damage ourselves most of all and ultimately assure ourselves of failure in competition with those more open and less biased.”

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Author:J. Irwin Miller

“Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.”

People Ifs Want Feels Winning Goal Loses Race Despair Sight Prejudice Quitting Surrender Opponents Retiring Discomfort Delayed Outrun

Author:Muhammad Ali

“If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more advanced—and a racist believes that an inherent difference between each race make his or her ethnicity superior. All of these ideologies spawn the hate, philosophical disagreements, and prejudices that have been the catalysts for various atrocious acts throughout history.”

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Author:David G. McAfee

“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

“We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.”

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Author:Anita Hill

“We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.”

Children America Young Race Prejudice Circles Blight

Author:Charles Hamilton Houston

“Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.”

Race Prejudice Racism And Prejudice

Book:The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...

Source: The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...

“From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.”

Source: The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition

“I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.”

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Author:Clarence Thomas

“I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language.”

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Author:James E. Faust

“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.”

Found Race Issues Prejudice Victim Jew Broads

Book:Long Walk To Freedom

Source: Long Walk To Freedom

“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.”

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Author:Mordecai

“Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are ‘invisible’. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice.”

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Author:Pearl Primus

“By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.”

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Author:Jacob Bronowski

“Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.”

Humans Real Values Race Prejudice Estates Decrease Ignorance And Prejudice

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.”

Race Pride Prejudice Antidote

Author:Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

“I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.”

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Author:Wendell Willkie

“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.”

“Racism doesn't always manifest through hostility, but sometimes it manifests through being too nice out of fear.”

Fear Race Racism Prejudice Civil Rights Hostility Too Nice Special Treatment Fear Of Punishment Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations

Author:Criss Jami

“Prejudice is by definition unreasonable and illogical. A reasoned dislike or a logical objection is not a prejudice, although false reasoning and pseudo logic are often found in the service of prejudice. Prejudice is invariably a symptom of a character defect, but tragically it is one that is shared in some degree by us all. Race, national and cultural prejudice is being recognized by thinking men as the great evil which as brought us to the brink of destruction. Prejudice which finds its focus in the accents,manners and styles of others is passed off as comparatively innocuous, but even this brand of prejudice does more to divide men than does any real differences in ideals and aspirations.”

Culture Race Ideals Logic Prejudice Manners Accents

Book:Stalking the Wild Asparagus

Source: Stalking the Wild Asparagus

“The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker.”

Source: Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I’m a member of the human race.”

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Author:Amelia Boynton Robinson