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Tag: prejudice, bigotry

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.

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It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

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William Hazlitt

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

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Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized racism that leads some victims at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self to embrace the values of their oppressors.

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We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

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A. Eustace Haydon

Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

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Charles Caleb Colton

We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.

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Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.

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Bishop Desmond Tutu

I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.

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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.

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It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

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