“Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.” PeopleWarChristianFightingChristianityRecordsHolyEuropeRootsPrejudiceIslamWesternEastToleranceViolentCrusadesWestern EuropeHoly War Author:Karen Armstrong
“I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.” WorldRealRunningDifficultShadowRootsPrejudiceUglyDiscriminationAcknowledgeOur SocietyReal WorldVery Deep Author:Joe Biden
“When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking out at a certain point, with the likely result that it will leak out at some other point.” CertainResultsRootsPrejudiceStrikesFanaticismLeaks Author:Eric Hoffer
“No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries. Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That's why all ideologies fail. Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.” MenWorldMindHumansHelpingBeautifulMovingPoliticalCausesUnderstandingReligiousHuman BeingsFailingFlowerConflictRootsPrejudiceMiseryBoundariesIdeologyBridgesDivisionNew WorldIdeologicalOrientationRoot Cause Author:Rajneesh
“I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.” PeopleThinkingLooksTwoIndividualRootsPrejudiceClassificationSnowflake Author:Craig Ferguson
“Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.” MenReasonSeemsJusticeDiversityRootsPrejudiceSocial JusticeJustify Author:Mary Wollstonecraft
“We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.” PeopleMeanShowsSchoolWinningCommonBehaviorRootsPrejudiceCornersLeisurePopularityOpen HeartTolerationHeartyCondescension Author:Adam Weishaupt
“There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).” WayGivingShouldChildrenTwoHelpingParentRootsPrejudiceWingsTwo ThingsBelongingConstraintsRoots And Wings Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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.” WarRaceChristianityEnemyStruggleDangerousCivilizationDiseaseRootsPrejudiceDemocraticWesternCivil WarDecencyWestern Civilization Author:Mordecai