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For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. (Achebe Chinua)
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. (Achebe Chinua)
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. (Achebe Chinua)
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. (Achebe Chinua)
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. (Achebe Chinua)
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. (Achebe Chinua)
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. (Achebe Chinua)
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. (Achebe Chinua)
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. (Achebe Chinua)
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. (Achebe Chinua)
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices (Achebe Chinua)
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (Achebe Chinua)
The most learned are often the most narrow minded. (Achebe Chinua)
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. (Achebe Chinua)
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. (Achebe Chinua)
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. (Achebe Chinua)
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract. (Achebe Chinua)
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. (Achebe Chinua)
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. (Achebe Chinua)
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument. (Achebe Chinua)
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. (Achebe Chinua)
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