"Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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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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"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

Prejudice, Worry, Social, Family

"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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"The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews."

Julius Streicher, German Soldier

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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?"

"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."

"The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews."

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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."

"Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex."

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