Thomas Sowell Quotes

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

Thomas Sowell

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• Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

  

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• The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

  

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• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

  

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• I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

  

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• You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

  

  Andrew Carnegie
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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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• The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society. No civil, liberal government can succeed, even after new elections, if the Islamists are forced to work underground as a foe and the country remains divided.

  

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• I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
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• The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

  

  Jane Wyman
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• Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

  

  David Icke
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• Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

  

  Anthony Rapp
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• It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.

  

  Li Ka-shing
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• Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.

  

  Obert C. Tanner
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• It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.

  

  Ariel Pink
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• A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

  

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• We felt responsible for each other. The D-line's got to take care of that line of scrimmage, (the linebackers) have got to clean up, and the safeties and DBs take care of that back end. We felt we're a brotherhood and we just had to get it done.

  

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• Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.

  

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• To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

  

  Virginia Woolf
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• If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Capable
  • Brotherhood
  • Racist