We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. – Booker T. Washington

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. – Arthur Helps, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd, 1835

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. – Georg C. Lichtenberg