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“If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.”

People Ifs Way Real Hard Guy Games Winning Sports Achieve Worst Hard Work Deserve Prejudice Real Life Worst Things Inertia Being Played What You Deserve

Author:Daley Thompson

“What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.”

Kind Mean Black Term Worst Conditions Musician Abuse Prejudice Jazz Exploitation Nasty Working Conditions

Author:Maxim Gorky

“the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.”

“The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.”

Party Teaching Worst Effects Prejudice Regard Tendencies Unworthy Opposing

Author:Dorothea Brande

“A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses them against herself.”

Use Accepting Worst Prejudice Guilt Sexuality Consent Preference Oppressors

Book:Sappho was a right-on woman: a liberated view of lesbianism

Source: Sappho was a right-on woman: a liberated view of lesbianism

“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.”

“I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This is not just true of the innumerable unread books in the socialist realist tradition, but also of novels that carry the burden of conservative ideologies, like Guerrillas, Naipaul's worst book, where the author's disgust for a certain kind of black activist and white liberal is overpowering.”

“The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”

Made Literature Race Mistake Worst Stupid Racism Prejudice Anti Semitism

Author:Ezra Pound

“The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.”

Thinking Feels Kind Self Enough Hurt Doubt Worst Prejudice Slavery Angry Good Enough Worst Things Not Good Enough Self-doubt

Author:Nina Simone

“I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.”

Moving Night Black Poor Pay Middle Worst Grew Grew Up Prejudice Welfare Italian Middle Of The Night

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”

Men Needs Written Worst Aspect Prejudice Our Time Dislike Thread Twilight Zone Dislike Someone

Author:Rod Serling

“Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.”

Reason Form Worst Prejudice Instruments Liberation Transformed

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.”

People Needs Seems Break Worst Prejudice Disappear Locals

Author:Gary Lineker

“He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.”

Kind Truth Evil Worst Devil Prejudice Errors Possessed

Author:Tryon Edwards

“You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.”

States United United States Knowing Worst Prejudice Not Knowing

Book:Daniel Martin

Source: Daniel Martin

“Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.”

Way Humans Looks Literature White Rights Violence Worst Prejudice Human Rights Cruelty Denied Unspeakable Southerner Basic Human Rights

Author:Linda Chavez