What’s Your Excuse?

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides.  I did so, hoping something might improve if I viewed all sides of it.  But the result was the same.  So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment.  For it is comforting to regard something as bad and be able use one’s prejudice as an excuse.
—    Karl Kraus
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Separate, Fearful And Imprisoned

Racism separates, but it never liberates.  Hatred generates fear, and fear once given a foothold;  binds, consumes and imprisons.  Nothing is gained from prejudice.  No one benefits from racism.
—    Thurgood Marshall, Former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Acceptance Speech
July 4, 1992
Independence Hall
Philadelphia, PA
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Really

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
—    Edward R. Murrow
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Personal Prisons

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.  No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.
—    Edward R. Murrow
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