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Bill Clinton1 quote
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. And each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices... These obsessions cripple both those who hate and of course those who are hated, robbing both of what they might become. We cannot, we will not, succumb to the dark impulses that lurk in the far regions of the soul everywhere. We shall overcome them. — Bill Clinton · 1997Charlotte Bronte1 quote
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Claude Adrien Helvetius1 quote
When prejudice commands, reason is silent. — Claude Adrien Helvetius · 1771Frederick the Great1 quote
Drive out prejudices through the door, and they will return through the window. — Frederick the Great · 1771Henry David Thoreau1 quote
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Juror #81 quote
It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities—we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure. — Juror #8 · 1957Marian Anderson1 quote
Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. — Marian Anderson · 1960Nelson Mandela1 quote
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela · 1994Rodgers and Hammerstein1 quote
You've got to be taught
Before it's too late
Before you are six, or seven, or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught. — Rodgers and Hammerstein · 1949