Morris Dees famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
-- Morris Dees

#Unique #Color #Our World
What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.
-- Morris Dees

#Law Enforcement #Nazi #Jew
If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.
-- Morris Dees
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
-- Morris Dees

#Children #Focus #Tolerance
Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.
-- Morris Dees

#Caring #People #Abuse
Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson
-- Morris Dees

#Years #Rights #Rays

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.
I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank
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.
There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors andï»¿ different brushstrokes over the same canvas.
If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence.
It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us...

Morris Dees famous quotes

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