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

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"Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there."

Ryan White, American Celebrity

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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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"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?"

Christina Engela, South African Author

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

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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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."

Marilyn French, American Author

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"One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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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."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there."

"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."

"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?"

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

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

"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."

"One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior."

"Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds."

"When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true."

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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

"We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit."

"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."