Accepted Quote by Janet Frame

They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by…

— Janet Frame

“They divided people into make-believe groups, arranged in a hierarchy. The upper levels enjoyed privileges and power, while the lower ones suffered from discrimination…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition…

— Major Owens

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances…

— Anonymous

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to…

— Tobias Dantzig

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing…

— James Tobin

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

— Ben Kingsley

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

— Neil Postman

“Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard to, or…

— Adam Smith

“The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were limited.”

— Alex Lamb

“Some were Levellers, an egalitarian movement that flowered briefly in the late 1640s. Strikingly modern in their aims, the Levellers wanted religious tolerance, manhood…

— Charles Spencer

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

— Robert Silverberg