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I remember back in the times of the Civil Rights movement, psychologists were studying bigotry and prejudice. They found that a way of getting people to change their attitudes was to get them to say something unbigoted. Thus if you could get people to say that whites and blacks are equal and should have the same rights, gradually, the prejudiced beliefs would change. In other words, the heart would follow the action.

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