#dice

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#cog #corruption #else #gives #governs

The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful - and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride-and-prejudice #beauty

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#contradict #existing #first #first law #journalism

The air is the only place free from prejudices. ↗

— Bessie Coleman

#free #only #place #prejudices

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#colonies #different #establishing #exaggerated #instrumental

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#i think #more #most #people #prejudice

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

— Buchi Emecheta

#britain #deal #exist #i #many

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#dies #difficulties #encounter #established #force

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#determine #diminish #fears #ideas #make

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

— Ron Fournier

#hasn #obama #obama presidency #out #prejudices