Criticism, hatred, and depreciation of others, held in a person's thought, have deleterious effects on them. Most people have experienced the crippling and stultifying effect of another's disapproval. It often results in actions that normally would be foreign to them. Conversely, how surely one blossoms forth with increased abilities under the benign influence of loving appreciation!
Through Christian Science one can see that the sufferings of black Americans result as much from others' mental attitudes —the hampering thoughts and silent belittlement—as from outward acts of discrimination and repudiation that quite naturally result from such false thinking.
Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health: "Legally to abolish unpaid servitude in the United States was hard; but the abolition of mental slavery is a more difficult task. The despotic tendencies, inherent in mortal mind and always germinating in new forms of tyranny, must be rooted out through the action of the divine Mind."Science and Health, p. 225;
