#prejudice

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#constant #enemy #friend #greatest #her

Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children. ↗

— Timothy Dolan

#anyone #children #church #ever #hatred

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#education #grade #higher #method #prejudices

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

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#been #burned #church #control #deal

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance. ↗

— David Brin

#advance #along #begin #book #characters

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#chain-reactions #control #fear #political-bias #religious-prejudice

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother. ↗

— Lynn Viehl

#pride-and-prejudice #humor

Obstinate, headstrong girl! ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride-and-prejudice #humor

Peter was now standing very close - as if he wanted to comfort me - as if he knew how hurt I felt that Mrs Knowles had not asked me to play or to sing. And I did feel comforted. It was as if a tide of warmth was carrying me out of myself, inclining me to trust him and to conduct myself well. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#jennifer-paynter #love #loyalty #mary-bennet #peter-bushell