"To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer……" — Gordon W. Allport
"To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation."
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29 Quotes by Gordon W. Allport
Gordon W. Allport has 29 quotes on this site.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one…
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a…
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of…
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an…
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But…
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Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with…
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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