What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.
Stichwörter: intelligence empowerment gender women feminism prejudice misogyny achievements academia stereotypes skills abilities double-standards clichés academic-degrees intellectual-success
People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.
Ray A. DavisStichwörter: peace prejudice racism
But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education.
Gina CapaldiStichwörter: education prejudice adversity
I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauStichwörter: arts identity prejudice culture
You make someone into a object of – not so much of pity as of weakness, sickness, stupidity, inefectiveness, do you see what I mean? You hit them for their stupidity and their inability to respond, and when you’ve hurt them, marked them, they’re even more sick and ugly, aren’t they? And they’re afraid and cringing too. Oh, I know this isn’t very pleasant, but you did ask.”
“Go on” he said.
“So you’ve got a frightened, stupid, even disabled person, silenced, made ugly, and what can you do with someone like that, someone who’s unworthy of being treated well? You treat them badly because that’s what they deserve. One thinks of poor little kids that no one love because they’re dirty, sovered in snot and shit, and always screaming. So you beat them because they’re hateful, they’re low, they’re sub-human. That’s all they’re good for, being hit, being reduced even further.
Stichwörter: injustice hatred prejudice violence discrimination
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being.
To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
Stichwörter: prejudice
It is founded on the worst instincts of mankind. At its best, it is intolerant and bigoted. At its worst, it is sadistic and brutal. Between these two poles it has its existence.
Susan Carol McCarthyStichwörter: prejudice
Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.
Liza MundyStichwörter: inspirational education autobiography prejudice
If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?'
'Lots of planets have a north!
Stichwörter: humour prejudice class doctor-who rose-tyler the-doctor accent the-doctor-and-rose
[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship.
[excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]
Stichwörter: prejudice act-2-scene-3 polite-hatred
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