#prejudice

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#against #both #clearly #dismiss #govern

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#deplorable #fashion #fragile #grace #had

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#elevation #no reason #prejudices #reason #woman

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#basis #equally #existence #free #freedom

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. ↗

— E. B. White

#form #get #great #great time #having

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ↗

— William James

#many #merely #people #prejudices #rearranging

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ↗

— William James

#merely #people #prejudices #rearranging #their

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. ↗

— Lord Jeffrey

#doubtful #easily #ever #get #like

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#civil #civil war #civilization #dangerous #decency

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. ↗

— Nina Simone

#am #angry #enough #feeds #feel