#prejudice

I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#family #fought #grew #i #league

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#duty #easy #getting #jury #jury duty

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#american #american people #anyone #charges #control

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. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#black #come #conditions #cultural #exploitation

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. ↗

— Frank Knox

#most #occasionally #our #prejudices #rearrange

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me. ↗

— Henry Villard

#contact #got #had #him #i

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#attaining #clouds #enlightening #great #held

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. ↗

— Byron White

#complete #death #especially #finality #infecting

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding. ↗

— Thomas Willis

#brings #dulling #especially #faculty #falling

As she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of hair, and a tendency to slouch, she had neither Mae's sweet nature nor sweet face. Her eyes were rather beautiful, but few people ever noticed this, and it was widely believed Maddy was ugly, a troublemaker, too clever for her own good, too stubborn - or too slack - to change. Of course, folk agreed that it was not her fault she was so brown or her sister so pretty, but a smile costs nothing, as the saying goes, and if only the girl had made an effort once in a while, or even showed a little gratitude for all the help and free advice, then maybe she would have settled down. ↗

— Joanne Harris

#hypocrisy #labeling #prejudice #scapegoating #superiority