#prejudice

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#am #come #first #get #good

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#allowed #basic #basic human rights #blacks #cruelty

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ↗

— Countess of Blessington

#chains #forged #ignorance #keep #men

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#advertising agencies #agencies #anywhere #fear #found

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish! ↗

— Dorothy Kilgallen

#children #jewish #my own #own #prejudices

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#always #appeal #circumstances #colored #desire

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#education #enlighten #evidence #ignorance #knowledge

But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education. ↗

— Gina Capaldi

#education #prejudice #education

All the lies, all the ways we have of trying to make life simple for ourselves by putting people into boxes marked black, white, good, bad, when all of us are victims of our own prejudices. ↗

— Julia Gregson

#india-england #julia-gregson #london #prejudice-victim #life

The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in which some people would have seen nothing but tedium and emptiness, she stepped forth as an author, breathing gaiety and youth, robed in dazzling light. ↗

— Elizabeth Jenkins

#jane-austen #pride-and-prejudice #life