"I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department."

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Erik Larson

#United States Quotes #Levels Quotes #Anti Semitism Quotes

“There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.”
“Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.”
“The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.”
“I don't understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and they cry in all the same places in my show. They laugh in the same places. They become hysterical in the same places. They faint in the same places and that's the perfect hypothesis. There is a commonality that we are all the same.”
“Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.”

Source : FaceBook post by David Whyte from Jun 14, 2012
“Will the future bring your wisdom to me? Or will darkness rule the kingdom for all eternity? You will live in my heartâ€¦ I will still remember even though we are apart. I will feel you there for me As I walk the road of life You help me fight for what is right I will honour thy name”
“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”

Source : 'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 1, sc. 1
“Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.”

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