J. Reuben Clark Quotes
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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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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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
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I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
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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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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.
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It took me years to realize that a computer would never truly be able to say cogito ego sum although dozens of lurid Hollywood movies about robots want to leave that impression. A computer thinks....that is, it realizes it has been switched on...but it doesn't know it exists.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.
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You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
