Quote of the Day for 2016-09-16

"Prejudice is the cause of most of the mistakes of bodies of men. It influences our conduct and warps our judgment, in politics, religion, habits, tastes and opinions."

— James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) "On Prejudice," The American Democrat (1838)

Lynching of Laura and Lawrence Nelson (May 25, 1911) Postcard by George Henry Farnum

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-16

"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice."

— Gore Vidal (1925-2012) "Sex and the Law," Partisan Review (Summer 1965)

Students burn desegregation literature at the University of Alabama while protesting the enrollment of Autherine Lucy (February 6, 1956)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-25

"The spirit which excludes some men today because they are of a certain color, may exclude others tomorrow because they are of a certain poverty or a certain church or a certain birthplace. There is no safety, no guarantee, no security in a prejudice."

— George William Curtis (1824-1892) "The Good Fight," Orations and Addresses

Nixon Southern Strategy by John Fischetti (October 30, 1969) Mourning the loss of "all deliberate speed," from Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, in the Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education decision by the US Supreme Court

Quote of the Day for 2016-01-30

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

— Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Innocents Abroad, volume 2, "Conclusion"

American Gothic by Grant Wood (1930)

Quote of the Day for 2015-10-02

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand stout country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."

— William Hazlitt (1778-1830) "On Prejudice," Sketches and Essays

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