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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.

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Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.

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I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

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There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

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Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil."

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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

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Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

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