Fear of difference is fear of oneself

What makes AIDS hard to deal with is the remaining prejudice and unreasonable fear. Even today, 20 years after the epidemic started, a number of people have still not been personally affected and remain uninformed and reluctant to address the issue seriously.

If four guys are attacking you, you're going to fear for your life and you're going to want to defend yourself. That's a natural reaction.

Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

Our data demonstrate that the students who exhibited sensitivity to prejudice and discrimination also reported having less self-control of their academic lives. They found it harder to take effective notes, create quiet study spaces and keep to a study schedule. We also know from correlating their responses with their SAT scores that this pattern isn't related to their academic ability -- something about the experience of being stigmatized taps that limited source of self-regulation and interferes with their self-control.

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