Harper LeePersecution comes from people who are prejudiced.
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The truth is that people who are prejudice are ignorant about the facts. They don’t know the truth about a certain thing. So they can be very suspicious of something that they don’t know. They are imagining the worst, and they are seeing things in ways that are not realistic.
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