Francis James Grimke famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.
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Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
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A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
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It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
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When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis of its history to do his whole duty, to shed his blood freely in its behalf . . . then, and not till then, will I be heard.
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. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.
-- Francis James Grimke
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
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