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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Sargent Shriver

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Sargent Shriver
American - Politician
November 9, 1915 - January 18, 2011

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Thomas Huxley

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Mark Twain

I think that systems that are based on employment are illogical and attempts to meet them create all sorts of unnecessary complexities.

Kenneth Arrow

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence.

Ashleigh Brilliant

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

Karen DeCrow

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

Benedict Cumberbatch

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

John F. Kennedy

First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

Emanuel Cleaver

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

James D. Watson

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Mark Twain

I believe, in the stock market - that's one of my fields - that most people are irrational. And to be irrational, you can be irrational in so many different ways that, practically, the result is indeterminate.

Paul Samuelson

I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.

Van Jones

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