Bible And Civil Rights Quotes & Sayings

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son. — Judy Collins

I don't know nothing about nothing. — Danny Bautista

I do not think I was a hothead - not then and not now. I thought I was right. I had read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bible. Segregation seemed evil from the time I was a boy. Slavery is an abomination on the American soul, ineradicable stain on our body politic. But Penn Center lit a fire that has never gone out, and the election of President Barack Obama was one of the happiest days of my life. — Pat Conroy

I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white. — Miles Davis

The gospel of the kingdom talks about principles of the kingdom. — Sunday Adelaja

For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are involved. — Milo Ventimiglia

I'm going to try to keep getting better. — Tiger Woods

The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it. — Peace Pilgrim

From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount." — Barack Obama

For the life of him, he couldn't figure why these East Enders called themselves black. He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found were gingersnap and light fudge and dark fudge and acorn and butter rum and cinnamon and burnt orange. But never licorice, which, to him, was real black. — Jerry Spinelli

Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America ... — Orson Pratt

I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this. — Cheryl Tiegs

The opposition of fundamentalist preachers and leaders to the civil rights movement was deeply connected to their historic separatism. They believed in an inerrant Bible that had been inspired by God, and they also believed that God explicitly ordained the separation of the races. The claims of the civil rights marchers were an affront to their interpretation of the Bible, and not just to their racial beliefs. — Andrew Himes

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You know how I know she's your most important person? You pick her every time. — Jenny Han

Girly, I've been driving since before you were even a twinkle in your mother's eye. — Michelle Hodkin