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Our prejudices — we all have them — are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.

— Gerry Spence How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

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There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

Give Me Liberty! (1998)

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

Give Me Liberty! (1998)

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Give Me Liberty! (1998)

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

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