His Skin Quotes
107 quotes by 81 authors
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate…
— Mel Brooks
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the…
— Marian Anderson
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The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this…
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by…
— Malcolm X
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,…
— Whitney M. Young
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Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family,…
— Takafumi Horie
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man…
— Malcolm X
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And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a…
— Charles Nicolle
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The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the…
— H. L. Mencken
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin....
— Mel Brooks
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Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds!…
— Homer
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No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
— Nelson Mandela
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Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his…
— James Tabor
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Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball,…
— Branch Rickey
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than…
— Michelangelo
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No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
— Whitney M. Young
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Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
— James F. Cooper
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We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil…
— Primo Levi
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What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?
— Khalil Gibran
Who Wrote These His Skin Quotes
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