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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I d

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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people

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Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to

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Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to

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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long a

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Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

The test of courage comes when we are in the mino

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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is va

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Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that

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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Small is the number of people who see with their

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Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

If only closed minds came with closed mouths.

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If only closed minds came with closed mouths.

If you judge people you have no time to love them

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If you judge people you have no time to love them.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect

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Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance

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I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to

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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

One day our descendants will think it incredible

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One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

The very ink with which all history is written is

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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only unde

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Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.

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