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Prejudices cannot be removed
by legislation...they yield only
to patient toil and education.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
20th-Century Leader of Indian Nationalism
and a Prophet of Nonviolence
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Beware, as long as you live,
of judging people by appearances.
Jean de la Fontaine
17th-Century French Writer of Fables
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What we see depends mainly on
what we look for.
Sir John Lubbock
19th-Century, English Banker,
Statesman, and Naturalist
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You loose a lot of time,
hating people.
Marian Anderson
20th-Century African-American Opera Singer
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The prejudices of ignorance are
more easily removed
than the prejudices of interest;
the first are blindly adopted,
the second willfully preferred.
George Bancroft
20th-Century American Character Actor
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Our thoughts are unseen hands
shaping the people we meet.
Whatever we truly think them to be,
that's what they'll become for us.
Richard Cowper
20th-Century British Author
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What I am, I am.
Sitting Bull
19th-Century American Indian Chief
of the Hunkpapa Lakota Tribes.
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A great many people
think they are thinking
when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
William James
19th-Century American Philosopher
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It is never too late
to give up your prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau
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Value Self
What are my unique gifts?
Who is my best self?
Knowing self is a prerequisite
for valuing self
There is no other like you.
What mark will you make in the world?
How will you be remembered? How do
you distinguish yourself from others?
What value do
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If we were to wake up
some morning and find that
everyone was the same race,
creed, and color, we would find
some other causes for prejudice
by noon.
Senator George Aiken
20th-Century Republican Senator, Vermont
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Given a thimbleful of facts
we rush to make generalizations
as large as a tub.
Gordon W. Allport
20th-Century U.S. Psychologist and Educator
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What you dislike in another
take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat
17th-Century British Author
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No one can figure out
your worth but you.
Pearl Baily
20th-Century African-American
Singer/Actress
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As soon as you
trust yourself
you will know how to live.
Goethe
19th-Century German Poet
1749-1832
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He who trims himself
to suit everyone
will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull
20th-Century American Writer and Poet
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Covet truth and authenticity.
You are who you are,
and as a creation of the
Supreme Being by definition
you are as you
were intended to be.
Mary-Frances Winters
From Unleashing Your True Potential
in the Workplace
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It seems to me that
before a man tries to
express anything to the world
he must recognize in himself
an individual, a new one,
very distinct from others.
Robert Henry
20th-Century American Painter
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To be nobody-but-yourself--
in a world which is doing its best,
night and day,
to make you everybody else--
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
20th-Century American Poet
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When we blindly copy another's path,
we are often disappointed that
the outcome is not the same for us.
Message:
Develop and follow your own path.
Mary-Frances Winters
From Only Wet Babies Like Change
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