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“Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.”

Used Logic Prejudice Instruments

Book:The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest

Source: The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest

“For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.”

Has Beens States Reality Used Wish Natural Century Prejudice Affair Users

Author:Eva Figes

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.”

Years Soul Kids Used Enjoy Sound White Company Records Rocks Listening Band Prejudice Radio Singers Labels Brown Crap Record Companies

Author:Miles Davis

“I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.”

“D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were in charge instead of you Crosses?' 'Can't say it's ever crossed my mind,' Jack shrugs. 'I used to think about it a lot,' I sigh. 'Dreams of living in a world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field.”

“And you're not the kind of girl I want." Surely he couldn't mean the fact that I was Mexican. From what I knew of Hardy, there wasn't a bit of prejudice in him. He never used racist words, never looked down on someone for things they couldn't help. "What kind do you want?" I asked with difficulty. "Someone I can leave without looking back.”

Want Kind Mean I Can Facts Helping Used Girl Bits Difficulty Prejudice Racist Looking Back Mexican Hardy Kind Of Girl

Book:The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

“Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.”

Men Way Reason Shows Used Girl Grows Women Numbers Prejudice Be Good Reason Why Aviation Pilots Disbelievers

Author:Cornelia Fort

“What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.”

Used Prejudice Used To Be Statistics Hypothesis Null

Book:Likelihood

Source: Likelihood

“We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.”

Used Language Needed Weapons Prejudice

Book:The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys

Source: The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys

“IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.”