#prejudice

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ↗

— Countess of Blessington

#chains #forged #ignorance #keep #men

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#glaring #injustice #prejudice #see #who

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

Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#coercion #controlling #diversity #extremism #freedom

Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ↗

— Voltaire

#prejudices #reason #use

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

— Frank Knox

#most #occasionally #our #prejudices #rearrange

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

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #difficult #error #fixed #formed