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Voltaire: “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Lillian Hellman: “I think people always believe what they want to believe, don't you?
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Lillian Hellman: “Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
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Leo Tolstoy: “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.
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Mark Twain: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
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Barack Obama: “I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.
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Albert Einstein: “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.
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Edward R. Murrow: “Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.
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William James: “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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James Baldwin: “It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
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Albert Einstein: “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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H. L. Mencken: “Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Walter Lippmann: “The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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Charlotte Bronte: “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
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