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

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.

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.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

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