"We sometimes hear a person talk in this way: 'I do not like such or such a person at all.'
"'Why?'
"'Oh, I don't know; I do not like her at all. I can't bear her.'
"'But why not? What is your objection to her?'
"'Oh, I don't know; I have not any particular reason, but I never did like her.'
"Now, whenever you hear any person talk so, you may be sure that her opinion on any subject is worth nothing at all. She forms opinions in one case without grounds, and it depends merely upon accident whether she does or not in other cases."
"Why is it that so many of our countrymen are, or seem to be, prejudiced against the unfortunate children of Africa? Almost every large white boy who meets a small black boy insults him in some way or other."
"It is so hard to overcome prejudices, that we ought to be careful how we form them."
"When I see a new scholar enter this school, and she does not happen to suit me exactly in her ways and manners, I very often get prejudiced against her; though sometimes I find her a valuable friend after I get acquainted with her."
"There is an inquiry I should like very much to make, though I suppose it would not be quite right to make it. I should like to ask all those who have some particular friend in school, and who can recollect the impression which the individual made upon them when they first saw her, to rise, and then I should like to inquire in how many cases the first impression was favorable, and in how many unfavorable."