#prejudice

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be. ↗

— Redd Foxx

#enough #every #home #how #kind

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bias #compassion #comprehension #discernment #fear

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#friends #love-humanity #prejudice #love

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ↗

— Frederick The Great

#prejudices #truths #men

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride-and-prejudice #love

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#bridges #conditions #construction #down #embarrassed

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#almost #form #group #joke #kind

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided. ↗

— Charles Curtis

#avoided #bias #hand #kept #prejudice

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#company #innocence #instructive #licentiousness #loss