I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
Interpretation
Laws alone cannot eliminate prejudice, but they can guide our behavior towards a more equitable society.
Belva Ann Lockwood emphasizes that while legislation may not be able to eradicate deep-seated prejudices, it can nevertheless provide a framework that encourages just and fair actions. Laws can play a crucial role in guiding societal behavior and striving towards a more inclusive environment, serving as tools that promote respect and equality among individuals.
In practice
In a speech about social reform, one might say, 'As Belva Ann Lockwood noted, we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.'
Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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