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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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"We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle - solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness."
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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."
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"Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding."
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"The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews."
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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."
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"When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?"
Progress
"To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."
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"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes."
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"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water."
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"Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them."
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"Not many men have both good fortune and good sense."
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"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains."
Man
"Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it."
Man
"Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight."
Love
"Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior."
Man
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