Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

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

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

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

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.