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Quotes about prejudice
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Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks. (Emmet Robert)
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. (Emmet Robert)
All colors will agree in the dark. (Emmet Robert)
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. (Emmet Robert)
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For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. (Emmet Robert)
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. (Emmet Robert)
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. (Emmet Robert)
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. (Emmet Robert)
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. (Emmet Robert)
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. (Emmet Robert)
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. (Emmet Robert)
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. (Emmet Robert)
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. (Emmet Robert)
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. (Emmet Robert)
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices (Emmet Robert)
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (Emmet Robert)
The most learned are often the most narrow minded. (Emmet Robert)
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. (Emmet Robert)
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he. (Emmet Robert)
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. (Emmet Robert)
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract. (Emmet Robert)
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. (Emmet Robert)
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. (Emmet Robert)
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument. (Emmet Robert)
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. (Emmet Robert)
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