#prejudices

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. ↗

— John Barton

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It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. ↗

— James Hillman

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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

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For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. ↗

— Luther Burbank

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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

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Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#assassinated #became #being #black #consider

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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