Sentences with phrase «race prejudice»

''... principal objects... are voluntarily to promote equality of rights and eradicate caste or race prejudice among the citizens of the United States; to advance the interest of colored citizens; to secure for them impartial suffrage, and to increase their opportunities for securing justice in the courts, education for their children, employment according to their ability, and complete equality before the law.»

We believe that misuse of MCAS test results exacerbates the impacts of race prejudice, class distinctions and limited English proficiency.

He found the racial prejudice of his new homeland odious: «Race prejudice has unfortunately become an American tradition which is uncritically handed down from one generation to the next.»

(Acts 17:26, King James Version) Am I really as free from race prejudice as a Christian ought to be?

It has been the contention of this chapter that the removal of race prejudice is a duty laid upon us by God, and if it is God's business we are engaged in, we must give God an opening in our souls.

Race prejudice is a pervasive human phenomenon.

6 Nevertheless, the roots of race prejudice are as old as the human race in the tendency to like those who are like oneself and to dislike those who for any reason, biological or cultural, are different.

Confront an adult with the fact of his race prejudice, and he will do one of three things.

Race prejudice, we have seen, is basically a matter of emotion, and there can be no effective challenge of it without right counter-emotions.

This is why the Christian faith, when it is made vital in terms of the equal worth of all persons to God, is a more effective solvent of ill feeling than argument, even as a sense of sin about race prejudice is a necessary prelude to repentance and change.

Although churches have never fully lived up to this ideal and have often sadly departed from it, the Christian gospel has always been a rebuke to race prejudice, national or class conflict, and every other form of man - made division.

When a society or a nation tries to direct its course on the basis of aggressive self - interest, denial of the rights and liberties of others, economic greed, lust for power, race prejudice, vindictiveness, and deception, situations are created which if unchecked lead to war.

Frenchmen were internationally minded, Frenchmen were relatively free from race prejudice, Frenchmen were thrifty, Frenchmen believed in freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of worship.

«The churches ought not to have any race prejudice.»

I agree with H. G. Wells that race prejudice «justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.»

Before this conviction, if taken seriously, no race prejudice, no economic strife, no national arrogance could stand.

So great is the hold of race prejudice on men's minds that it must be counteracted by something powerful and revolutionary.

Reflection on the obvious irrationality of continuing race prejudice may help to make clear our central theme that the first aim of education should be the awakening of devotion to what is good, in order that growth in knowledge and skill may serve some valuable purpose.

At the very least it shows the irrational nature of race prejudice and suggests the lengths of intellectual irresponsibility to which one must go to maintain the racist position.

«I grew up blissfully naive of gender prejudices and race prejudices,» Lin said.

If one has a commitment to know the truth and to live by it, knowledge of the facts about race can help in the cure of nonrational race prejudices.

World citizenship can be widely extended among all people through the application of the principles of mental health... the problem of world citizenship in relation to human survival needs to be formulated afresh in the light of new knowledge about aggressiveness in man, group tensions and resentments, race prejudices and nationalist sentiments and stereotypes.

Not exact matches

The current dog - approved collection includes Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Soldier Dogs by Maria Goodavage, A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron, and The Art of Racing in the Road by Garth Stein.

Just as this article said, and my comment above, to solve the divide, we can: (1) Argue about the definition of Race / God (2) Argue about identification in a religion / race (3) Or realize the fundamental problem of prejudice that sneaks into human - made abstractions like «race» and «God&raqRace / God (2) Argue about identification in a religion / race (3) Or realize the fundamental problem of prejudice that sneaks into human - made abstractions like «race» and «God&raqrace (3) Or realize the fundamental problem of prejudice that sneaks into human - made abstractions like «race» and «God&raqrace» and «God».

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Seemingly, despite progress made against discrimination / prejudice against external differences (colour / race / gender), it is still perfectly acceptable in some places to discriminate against internal differences (beliefs / ideology / worldview / sexual orientation etc.) and to do so with such vehemence as to rival some of those historical examples you cited.

But too often his prejudices against those of other cultures and races were not softened.

Another thing that I did not like about this church were their extreme prejudices towards other religions and even races and cultures.

One place to begin is with the anti-Catholic, and anti-evangelical, prejudices entrenched among those who, in a moment of partisan contortion, expressed such touching concern about the alleged anti-Catholicism in the current presidential race.

Men do not transcend the prejudice and hatred based on race by physical proximity or even by the reasonable evidence that all need each other.

The problem is to set aside the damnosa hereditas of prejudice, false tradition, superstition, fear, hatred, that survives from the childhood of the race, and to develop institutions adequate to its maturity.

Not only are laws which segregate races being attacked, but positive laws which make it a crime to spread racial prejudice are being passed.

If the United States were to be the first to release this new means of indiscriminate destruction upon mankind, she would sacrifice public support throughout the world, precipitate the race for armaments, and prejudice the possibility of reaching an international agreement on the future control of such weapons.

The Commission would think in planetary terms about the whole human race, transcending the narrow ties of national governments and racial and ideological prejudices.

He did this without prejudice as to race or religion and without forced conversion of the people to Islam — on the contrary, he was the first to establish Confucian temples in Yunnan.

Consider your race, was there a time when your family line faced prejudice or racism because of their skin color or nationality?

Have you noticed that if any group / race / religion does not get its way in this country that it automatically screams racism or prejudice first thing?

Debriefing revealed that many of the participants had become aware of race - related feelings — shock, fear, expectation of rejection, vulnerability, confusion, inferiority as a Black, relief at being White again, and guilt about these responses.5 This group was relatively free of conscious prejudices and was dedicated to racial justice.

These prejudices are stumbling blocks to the fullness of God's Kingdom on earth, as inimical and counter to God's intention as any race, sex or class prejudice.

«They are keenly aware of the need for social and economic justice, the stewardship of creation, and equality of opportunity; they are equally aware of the need for a society free from any form of prejudice rooted in anything which is part of the individual identity, gender, race, origin, religion or orientation of anyone.»

Based on signs of discrimination in the housing market in this post, here are the signs of possible discrimination in your church because of your race, social status, gender, sexual orientation, beliefs, or other targets of prejudice:

He understood, said the Review, that the evil of racism was not unique: «It is, as the author points out, the same problem of prejudice which in varying degrees affects all groups of whatever color, race or religion.

Too great and too glad to be stopped by prejudice, it seeks the good of all sorts and conditions of folk across all the barriers that caste, class, and race can erect.

I think my generalization suggesting a black coach in a city school has an advantage recruiting black athletes is closer to how the world works than some open minded dream world that prejudice between races has been removed.

In fact, Karin Yarosh's struggle to succeed and the circumstances that led up — and in some ways contributed — to her mishap lend new currency to another old bugaboo word that still applies to thoroughbred racing: prejudice.

Bayern, which has won the last five Bundesliga titles, ended this year's race early, and with extreme prejudice.

At the heart of our education lies the goal to bring students to an understanding of the commonality of the human experience of all of the world's people, transcending the stereotypes, prejudices, and divisiveness of classification by race, religion, sex, nationality, and ability.

It is a fundamental goal of Waldorf education to bring students to an understanding and experience of the common humanity of all the world's peoples, transcending any stereotypes, prejudices, or divisive barriers of race, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, creed, religion, national origin, or ethnicity.

covariance with ethnicity / race and education (i.e. people of the same ethnic or racial groups may be of the same educational groups, either due to opportunity or prejudice)