“Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back?”
William Moulton Marston (1893–1947) American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writer
Your Life What are your prejudices? (1939).
“The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of.”
Letter to Thomas Jefferson http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2127#lf1431-10_head_179 (22 January 1825). The section in italics is often attached to fragments from an earlier letter from Adams to Jefferson (17 January 1820) <br class="br">1820s <br class="br">Context: The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton’s universe and Herschell’s universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
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