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America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the… — Malcolm X
The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of… — Malcolm X
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in… — Abraham Lincoln
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their… — Otto von Bismarck
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one… — Thomas Jefferson
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance… — Thomas Jefferson
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and… — Thomas Jefferson
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and… — Thomas Jefferson
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely… — Mark Twain
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results… — Thomas Jefferson
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and… — Joseph Story
God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the… — Ronald Reagan
Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time. — Dorothy Parker
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. — Frederick Buechner
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — Mark Twain
Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. — Charles Caleb Colton
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… — David Hume
Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however,… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by… — Thomas Jefferson
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to… — William Butler Yeats
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new… — Carson McCullers
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself… — Gordon B. Hinckley
And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving… — Ronald Reagan

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