Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it. — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ... — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality. — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that's what we're doing. — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance. — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. —Jeffrey Arduan” — Steve White Copy Share Image
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are… — Hsin Hsin Ming Copy Share Image
The world of fashion. I'm interested in the world, not in fashion! But, maybe I was too quick to put down fashion.… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
“What is Science, What is Holy (Sonnet) There is no greater spiritual journey than the rejection of prejudice, there is no greater… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I don't like kissing." "I suppose it is a matter of taste."[...]"I wondered, did anyone ever," shrug, "you know, hurt you so… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people… — John Morton Copy Share Image
I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“He didn't know what he was anymore – not truly Chinese, for he had spent too long in the West, adopted too… — Dominique Wilson Copy Share Image
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
“Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It’s a terrible thing to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor. — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image