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It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.

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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

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Personality is and does something. . . It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism". . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.

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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

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