Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'