Prejudice Quotes - Page 19

• We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Effort, Groups, Reform

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• We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

  Chen Shui-bian

  People, Taiwan, Strive

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• I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Believe, Greatness, Democracy

  BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.

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• We have had a long wait for democracy.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Long, Waiting, Democracy

  BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.

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• If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Country, Heart, Humble

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• It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Taken, Democracy, Half

  BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.

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• The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Party, Victory, Election Results

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• I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Confidence, Democracy, Taiwan

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• We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that things are done well by people other than ourselves. "The Japanese are a remarkable little people," we say, as if we were doing them a favor. "He is an Arab, but you ought to hear him play the zither." Why "but"?

  Robert Benchley

  Play, People, Done

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.49, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• "Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna be a lawyer." "That's fine with me," I said, a little annoyed. "I've just never heard of a Negro lawyer, that's all. You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them." "Bullshit. You gotta imagine what's never been."

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Sports, Football, Successful

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Girl, Thinking, Skins

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

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• I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

  Bernard Baruch

  Son, Effort, Experience

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• Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Cures, Trade

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• The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

  Amelia Bloomer

  Injustice, Intemperance, Emancipation

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• REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reason

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.177, 谷月社

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• Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"

  John Ross Macduff

  Strong, People, Evil

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• Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.

  William McChesney Martin

  Pyramids, Mind, Tiny

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• I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Cutting, Climbing, Views

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.286, Penguin

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• Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

  Jennifer Stone

  Hurt, Thinking, Agony

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Children, Race, Circles

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• Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

  Oliver Lodge

  Impossible, Broads, Invincible

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “Past Years: An Autobiography”, p.306, Cambridge University Press

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• Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

  Maya Lin

  Growing Up, Artist, White

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• I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  White

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.48, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

  Francis James Grimke

  Race, Racism And Prejudice

  Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

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• Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Squirrels, Perspective, Bird

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