Belief Quote by Bayard Rustin

“Emerson said, “I am more of a Quaker than anything else. I believe in the still, small voice.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I've learned that our backgrounds and circumstances may have influenced our lives, but we are responsible for who we become and in the same…

— Elissa Gabrielle

“A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost.…

— Jean M. Auel

“idealistic and self-sufficient and rugged people they had once been, and”

— John Green

“The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were limited.”

— Alex Lamb

“Indeed, in addition to its lessons of thrift, industry, and prudence, Franklin's autobiography tells us every man should be part of a social group,…

— Keith Ferrazzi

“Folks from the backwoods were certain about two things: that every human soul needed to be free and that the responsibility of being free…

— bell hooks

“Wesleyanism was at its most influential when it was a people movement that was reproducing like mad. It”

— Alan Hirsch

“It was his experience that one did poorly by involving oneself in matters of local religion. The world looked one way if you believed,…

— Nick Harkaway

“What he taught was very simple. He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means to freedom.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He was permitted, without restriction, to speak of himself as immoral, agnostic and socialistic, so long as it was universally known that he remained…

— Sinclair Lewis