#prejudices

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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them. ↗

— Howard Barker

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The air is the only place free from prejudices. ↗

— Bessie Coleman

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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

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Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices. ↗

— Knute Rockne

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There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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