#prejudice

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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

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

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.


Johann Kaspar Lavater


#am #ask #boldly #boldness #faith

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.


Jim McKay


#gender #like #lot #oftentimes #open

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.


H. L. Mencken


#made #plausible #prejudice

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.


H. L. Mencken


#go #go to hell #hell #live #may

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.


Nelson A. Miles


#against #both #clearly #dismiss #govern

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.


Andrew Motion


#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.


Johann Most


#corruption #looks #powered #prejudice #see