We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to… — Karen Armstrong 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
One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I believe in talking about gender to young people, so they can understand and accept differences, and I am a mentor at… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven;… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past… — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image