Civiil Rights Quotes & Sayings

If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination. — C.S. Lewis

I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things. — Sachin Kundalkar

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death. — Hugh Laurie

You're a ghost! Eddie cried. You're empty and you have nothing inside you. — Daniel Handler

I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child. — Elizabeth Strout

No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray ... How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people. — Edward McKendree Bounds

If you are against abortions, don't have one. — Scott Andrews

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. — Georges Bernanos

Any Federal official, who engages in employment discrimination, lacks the moral integrity to evenhandedly enforce our Nation's laws or manage Federal programs. — Tanya Ward Jordan

A person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them. — Francis Crick

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everybody is someone else's instrument. — Michael Wolf

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively. — Douglas Rushkoff

When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings. — Tom Douglas

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was. — Helen Dunmore

To be a responsible person is to find one's role in the building of shalom, the re-webbing of God, humanity and all creation in justice, harmony, fulfillment and delight. To be a responsible person is to find one's own role and then, funded by the grace of God, to fill this role and to delight in it. — Cornelius Plantinga