#prejudice

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself. ↗

— John Galliano

#been #fought #having #i #life

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #appear #dealing #deepest #family

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#common #common language #converse #equates #finds

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side? ↗

— Denis Leary

#democratic #greatest #history #how #i

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian-american #bit #denmark #growing #growing up

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#any #broad #come #conclusion #experience

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices. ↗

— John Henry Mackay

#brief #i #make #never #other

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#made #plausible #prejudice

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#go #go to hell #hell #live #may

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even