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“The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.”

People Persons Long Happens Given Results Thousand Long Time Prejudice Pressure Chains Obscure Reformers Modification Cumulative

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”

Consciousness Five Thousand Empathy Prejudice Dollars Males Privilege Absence Holes Welcome Sexism Pregnant Committees Salary Counterparts

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”

Men Political Influence Thousand Logic Prejudice Convinced Appeals Convince Rebellion One Man Convincing Revolt Swaying

Book:Revolt in 2100

Source: Revolt in 2100

“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.”

People Ifs World Needs Feels Persons Form Love Is Mets Thousand Ten Prejudice Feel Good Need You Convenient Make You Feel Good

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”

Men Years Girl Five Four Fine Thousand Prejudice Fortune Dear Single Man Fine Things Mrs Bennet

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.”

Made Age Wanted Watches Pride Keys Fool Thousand Losing Prejudice Response Loud Apology Jane Proposal Inexplicable Marriage Proposal Burping

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.”

World Simple Thousand Perception Conscious Prejudice Assuming Subconscious Fallacy Imposing Actuality

Author:Colin Wilson

“I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delight, to be in turns the object and the victor of her remorse! Far be it from me to destroy the prejudices which sway her mind! They will add to my happiness and my triumph. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms.”

“Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.”

Years Believe Two Theory Thousand Gold Prejudice Thousand Years Mistaken

Book:Park Bench Statesman

Source: Park Bench Statesman

“The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.”

People Years Mind Body Growth Change Thousand Ten Ordinary Prejudice Transformation Tired Unity Simplicity Realms Frightened Thousand Years Toil Sage Ordinary People Starting Anew

Author:Guo Xiang

“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”