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Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred — which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest, too.

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Memories were like ivy, Thalia pondered, that with its luxuriant growth could quickly cover the names of those it had been planted to keep green.

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If some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

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Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done...

Josephine Lawrence

I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.

Josephine Lawrence

Josephine Lawrence

Josephine Lawrence

Born: 1889

Died: 1978 (aged 89)

Bio: Josephine Lawrence was an American novelist and journalist.

Known for:

Next Door Neighbors (1926)
The adventures of Elizabeth Ann (1923)
The Berry Patch (1925)
Rainbow Hill (1924)
Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm (1920)

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