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“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already,...” Leo Tolstoy, “The Kingdom of God Is Within You” - 1894

“It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.” Mark Twain, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” - 1884

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad” - 1869

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854

“see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradations we surmount the force of local prejudice, as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world.” Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” - 1776

“there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.” Jane Austen, “Sense and Sensibility” - 1811

“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don’t knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know...” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“As a disciple of Mably and Rousseau, he flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.” Anatole France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard” - 1881

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