“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.” MenWorldFirstsLooksChildrenEyeMotherPassionSpeakUnderstandingStepsWatchesStruggleStudyExampleSourceArmsHabitFirst TimePrejudiceMirrorsStrikesHis EyesCradleBack In TimeWrappingPower Of ThoughtUnclear Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice in our midst, but I think that the vast majority of Americans are willing, are willing to judge people on the basis of their ideas and their character. And in the case of the presidency, I think what's most important is whether the American people think that you understand their hopes and dreams and struggles and whether they think you can actually help them achieve those hopes and dreams.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStillsImportantIdeasCharacterHelpingDreamCasesStruggleAchieveWillingJudgingBasesPrejudiceMajorityCoreDecentMidstPresidencyHopes And Dreams Author:Barack Obama
“A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.” MenDoeHas BeensHardFightingEvilFoundIndividualProcessStruggleTreeBattlePrejudiceInstinctInevitableGood And EvilIntoleranceGave UpStruggle Between Good And Evil Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.” DifferentTodayFacesPoliticalForceNaturalStrugglePrejudiceAcknowledgeTribesHistoricGreeceNeighbourTurkishPolitical LifeSerbiaFacing The TruthAlbanian Author:Dimitrije Tucovic
“We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.” AgeOpinionStruggleHonestPrejudiceCaughtConvictionDryParadoxTyrantsHelplessPublic OpinionWhirlpoolsDry Leaves Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.” FeelingsRealizingWonderStepsStruggleShareChildhoodStageAcceptancePrejudiceRelationBlindPossessionToleranceBitterSpotsSignificanceWombRace RelationsInfancyEmbryosBlind Spots Author:Sarah-Patton Boyle
“I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.” I CanMightSocialDifficultStruggleImagineEasierPrejudiceAddListsAutismStressful Author:Liane Holliday Willey
“I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny, wry, perceptive contemporary observer to whom the subject matter seems almost as different and alien, and requiring as much struggling to understand, as it did to me.” DifferentMatterSeemsStruggleSubjectsPrejudiceContemporaryAliensFranceDelightfulObserversSubject MatterWry Author:Charles R. Morris
“There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same.” PeopleWholeLevelsStruggleTreatsPrejudiceTendenciesDisabilityLiftingPedestal Author:Zach Anner
“At a young age, I became very aware that not only did my family have to struggle but that families around the country were struggling as well. Also, being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.” WellsCountryAgeYoungPoliticalLostCareersStruggleMy FamilyPrejudiceHolocaustYoung Age Author:Bernie Sanders
“If I didn't end up talking about the things that I care about, I wouldn't be myself. I didn't like the idea that I would be a different person on the internet than I would be in real life. And I see people struggling. I see people who face prejudice and people who feel invisible. And I recognize that I already have a built-in platform that I can utilize so easily to actually do something.” PeopleIfsFeelsPersonsI CanIdeasDifferentRealEndsWould BeCareFacesTalkingStruggleInternetBuiltPrejudiceReal LifeInvisiblePlatformsI Care Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.” WarHumanityStruggleEternalPrejudiceTeethSubstanceHypocrisyBigotrySuperstitionsNailsPhantomsInevitabilityTruce Book:Les Misérables Source: Les Misérables
“In my life I have had to work through problems of stigmatization and prejudice. When I discovered the power of the arts to express my pains and joys, it became clear to me that there would be no other way to work through the demons except to fully embrace the process of creation. The work was not personal therapy but had a connection to other peoples' realities. As I grow older and more mature, it becomes clearer to me that personal struggles and conflicts are connected with universal struggles and conflicts. It is this knowledge, ironically, that gives me the freedom to experiment in my work” WayGivingArtProblemRealityWould BePainJoyGrowsProcessStruggleClearCreationConflictConnectionsUniversalGive MePrejudiceEmbraceConnectedExperimentsTherapyDemonMaturePersonal Struggle Author:Reza Abdoh
“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