James Hal Cone Quotes
The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence.
Quotes to Explore
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.
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The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.
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When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.
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To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
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The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence.
