Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here."
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Prejudice
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Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."
Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic."
Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction."
Marlene Dietrich
Actress, Singer
"To lose your prejudices you must travel."
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"That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue."
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"We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong."
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"Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid."
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"You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche."
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"Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget."
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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
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"The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence."
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"There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge."
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"I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man."
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"The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred."
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"Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd."
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"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."
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"It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices."
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"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice."
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"Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice."
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"The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices."
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"It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom."
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"The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism."
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"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."
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"Prejudice is an opinion without judgment."
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