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Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.
Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, read more
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly read more
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom read more
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
Rigid judgmental
opinions
can block descent
of Spirit's pinions.
Rigid judgmental
opinions
can block descent
of Spirit's pinions.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
