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“Prejudice is a burden which confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“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
“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
“see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“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
“the man was clearly guilty. You could tell just by looking at him. Not, perhaps, guilty of anything specific. Just guilty in general terms.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“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
“How difficult it is to submit anything to the judgment of another, without prejudicing his judgment by the manner in which we submit it!” Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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