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I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the g...
As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be address...
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I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.
Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.
How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.
Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspiration that brings an end to the belief “it’s impossible”!
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
Don’t ignore or drive away your God sent Davids for you will need them when the life threatening giant Goliaths go on rampage in your life
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.
As I have learned over the years, your friends don’t change; you just learn to ignore or embrace the bad bits.
We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.
We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.
