Rasicm Quotes & Sayings

It washed over me for the first time in my life how much importance the world had ascribed to skin pigment, how lately it seemed that skin pigment was the sun and everything else in the universe was the orbiting planets. Ever since school let out this summer, it had been nothing but skin pigment every livelong day. I was sick of it. — Sue Monk Kidd

Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make? — Ted Cruz

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. — Thomas Jefferson

I dinna trust that Q, that's a letter than has it in for a man. That's a letter with a sting, that one! — Terry Pratchett

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. — David Hume

There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news. — Studs Terkel

Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home. — Elizabeth Hardwick

Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something. — Barbara Samuel