"Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?"
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society."
- Abhijit Naskar
"Actually, this is a poem my father once showed me, a long time ago. It has been bastardized many times, in many ways, but this is the original:The Cold Within Six men trapped by happenstance,in bleak ..."
- James Patrick Kinney
"Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."
- Harper Lee
"If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith."
- DaShanne Stokes
"A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of mal..."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
"The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of..."
"That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it."
- Mark Twain
"She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administer..."
- Jane Austen