If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.
The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man.
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
The stain of prejudice is often indelible.
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.
I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.
Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.
Taste may change, but inclination never.
The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.
I have a very deep belief that all the problems in society are not because some people are bad and some people are good and we have to get rid of all the wrong people. Everything that we want to fix is because of a flaw in humans in general, something that humans together do incorrectly.
Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever
