"If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more."

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John Shelton Reed

#Race Quotes #Care Quotes #Poor Quotes

“If Muslims want to take their disputes to religious arbitrators because they genuinely believe that it's a matter of great spiritual importance that they do that, they shouldn't be the only community in this country that's denied the opportunity to do that. Because the Jewish population has been entitled to take their disputes to tribunals known as the Beth Din for over one hundred years, and the Church of England is integrated into the fabric of this country, and there are ecclesiastical tribunals where religious disputes can be dealt with.”
“I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.”
“The only alternative to soul winning is disobedience to Christ.”

Source : Curtis Hutson (2000). “Bread for Believers”, p.83, Sword of the Lord Publishers
“There were times that I would be drunk and just leave a place by myself because I had an impulse and wasn't thinking through the repercussions on others.”

Source : "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
“The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.”
“When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.”
“When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.”
“The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.”

Source : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Emma Elizabeth Brown (1879). “Thoughts that breathe”

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