"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room."

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"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room."

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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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"Fundamentalism not only fuels devastating acts of violence, but also all kinds of primitive prejudicial behaviors, such as Misogyny, Polygamy, Homophobia, and Islamophobia."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian 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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"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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"Bigotry is the sacred disease."

Heraclitus, Greek Philosopher

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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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"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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"Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another's sex life."

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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"I have no prejudice against male or female."

John Lone, American Actor

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