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“willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.”

Truth Is Weak Prejudice Combat

Book:Henrietta: Embellished with superb engravings

Source: Henrietta: Embellished with superb engravings

“To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.”

Has Beens Weak Prejudice

Book:Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons

Source: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons

“Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.”

Reason Strong Weak Prejudice

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.”

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Author:Hugo Black

“Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"”

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Author:John Ross Macduff

“Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart.”

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Author:Jean Vanier

“Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.”

Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois