Society and the World

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life, all gave America a flavor and a character that make it as unmistakable and as remarkable to people today as it was to Alexis de Tocqueville in the early part of the nineteenth century.

The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life, all gave America a flavor and a character that make it as unmistakable and as remarkable to people today as it was to Alexis de Tocqueville in the early part of the nineteenth century.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Prejudice is the reason of fools.

No prejudice has even been able to prove its case in the court of reason.

No prejudice has even been able to prove its case in the court of reason.

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.