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  • Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. - Hebrew Proverb


  • There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide


  • It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. - Quentin Crisp


  • Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old. - William J Durant


  • America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. - James F Cooper


  • I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. - Clint Eastwood


  • Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. - Shirley Chisholm


  • Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. - Lord Chesterfield


  • It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you. - John Jay Chapman


  • I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. - W C Fields


  • 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 stones. - Charlotte Bronte


  • A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. - Ambrose Bierce


  • He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices - Carlo Goldoni



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