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A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long af...

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Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of ...

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The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which...

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As you, my fans, know I’m scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also kn...

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If we suggest that it is okay to make fun of everything except certain aspects of Islam because Musl...

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In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poet...

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People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with...

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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after ...

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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the...

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Dorothy L. SayersThe Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them...

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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, whe...

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If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to hims...

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Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up ...

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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will...

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The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiorit...

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Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common pheno...

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Ian BurumaA Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere,...

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Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions.

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where ther...

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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Dreher laments we now live in a “post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are stan...

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I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin...

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How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facili...

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New York City is a tinderbox. The Sons of the Serpent - a white supremacist group with a twisted his...

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Another kind of transcendence myth has been dramatization of human life in terms of conflict and vin...

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Mary DalyBeyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry,...

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Maya AngelouWouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and ...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we th...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have serve...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control i...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very h...

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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow...

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You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to...

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Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly M...

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He was afraid that the world struggle today was not of Communism against Fascism, but of tolerance a...

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Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current ev...

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You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your be...

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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned...

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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned...

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My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or the...

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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education ...

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Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically ...

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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England...

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And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists ...

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The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the cr...

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Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...

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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice c...

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People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, r...

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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers...

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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

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Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.