Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Prejudice

• We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Church, Prejudice, Religious Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson”

• I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Innovation, Prejudice, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.210, Princeton University Press

• Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Decision, Heaven, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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