#prejudice

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#prejudice #crime

I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#twitter #twitter

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride-and-prejudice #pride

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. ↗

— Jane Austen

#lizzie #pride-and-prejudice #pride

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #pride-and-prejudice #pride

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#ignorance #inexperience #mercedes-lackey #prejudice #enlightenment

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable... ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#thought #prejudice

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#race #racism #hatred

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#people #prejudice #prejudice

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#prejudice #racism #small-mindedness #prejudice