Prejudice Quotes - Page 27

• Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

  Pratibha Patil

  Distance, Goal, Long

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

  Branch Rickey

  Sports, Baseball, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime social necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race the antidote for prejudice. History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset.

  Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

  Country, Pride, Past

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• Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

  Robert Peel

  Feelings, Weakness, Public Opinion

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• We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

  David Suzuki

  Support, Information, Opinion

  "What a difference 50 years makes", davidsuzuki.org, June 27, 2008.

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• Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.

  David Walker

  Winning, Self, Challenges

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• Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Rags, Enmity, Resentment

  Joseph O'Connor, Random House UK (2004). “Star of the Sea”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

  George Santayana

  Humor, Growth, Mind

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• I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

  Bess Truman

  Opportunity, Race, Action

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• We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.

  Otto Frank

  Believe, Mean, Responsibility

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• Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

  Joey Skaggs

  Hatred, Target, Deviation

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• I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Learning, This Life, Wanted

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.72, Kodansha America

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• Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Fall, Tree, Forests

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• All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Education, Math, Dimensions

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• There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Men

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• All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Intolerance

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “Memoirs”

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• There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Running, Fields, Causes

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• Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Would Be, Priesthood, Misogyny

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• Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Minorities

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• Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

  Johann Most

  Stupid, America, Looks

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• The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's faithfulness to his prejudices. If he were a lover of truth, he would be willing at any moment to surrender his belief for a higher, better, and truer faith.

  William George Jordan

  Religious, Men, Coward

  William George Jordan (1903). “Great truths”

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• Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

  Dorothea Brande

  Philosophy, Mind, Fiction

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.1, Lulu.com

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• A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

  Lord Acton

  Philosophy, Bundles, Conservatism

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• Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

  Robert Kennedy

  Progress, Accepting, Status Quo

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• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Heart, Winning

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