A Quote by Josh Billings

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Josh Billings

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Ignorance Nurse Prejudice Wet

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Josh Billings
American - Comedian
April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

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David Abrahamsen

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It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

Francois Rabelais

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Toni Morrison

Prejudice is ignorance.

Michael Jackson

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

William Hazlitt

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Jim Rohn

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Adlai Stevenson I

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

Spencer W. Kimball

Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

Samantha Power

Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.