"Thus you must destroy prejudices in all cases, by connecting pleasant thoughts and associations with the objects of them."
"I am very often prejudiced against new scholars, without knowing why?"
"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 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."