"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."

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"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."

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"Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected."

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"People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things."

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"He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men."

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"Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?"

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"Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

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"We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated."

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