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Meaning
The quote compares prejudice and faith by saying both can start when rational thinking stops. It suggests that belief and bias may arise in the same space where evidence and reasoning no longer guide a person. The wording also frames prejudice as harmful and faith as morally positive, while still linking them as similar in origin.
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About Harper Lee
American novelist
Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She also helped her close friend Truman Capote with research for In Cold Blood. An earlier draft of Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015 as a sequel, and a later collection of her short stories and essays, The Land of Sweet Forever, was published after her death.
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More Faith quotes
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Books by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
1969
Go Set A Watchman
2016