#prejudice

Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale. ↗

— Steve Hockensmith

#pride-and-prejudice #zombies #zombies

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #pride-and-prejudice #respect

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good. ↗

— Felix Adler

#affecting #been #community #conviction #day

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #christianity #christians #crusades #east

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#always #education #family #grow #had

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come. ↗

— Amar Bose

#come #dark #father #food #i

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding. ↗

— Lara St. John

#battle #been #conducting #conductors #dominated

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#gone with the wind #i #knowing #level #not knowing

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ignorance #life #prejudice #life

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now. ↗

— Ione Skye

#even #even now #just #many #now