James T. Rapier famous quotes

I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter and my future fully described, I think I should have objected to being born in this gospel land.
-- James T. Rapier

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There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.
-- James T. Rapier

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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.