Reason Quotes - page 98

The health of the white people requires that the negro cabin be kept clean; and the maintenance of chastity there is necessary for the protection of woman throughout the land. The need of making the black man more intelligent and conscientious has already been so far recognized by the South, that she has remodelled her entire school system for his benefit; and her desire to make him more valuable as a member of the community, cannot long permit him to be lynched or otherwise maltreated. Her memory of the misrule of the carpet-baggers will grow fainter; and she will finally be able to see that even the illiterate voter is not so dangerous a citizen in a republic as the man who has not this reason to interest himself in its welfare. The South may be much slower than we could wish in reaching these conclusions; but no others will be found permanently satisfactory to her; and it is by no means certain that her pace will be quickened by a display of federal bayonets. (Frederick Douglass)
I assure you, that this inestimable memento of his Excellency will be retained in my possession while I live - an object of sacred interest - a token not merely of the kind consideration in which I have reason to know that the President was pleased to hold me personally, but as an indication of his humane interest in the welfare of my whole race. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is no conceivable reason why all colored people should not be treated according to the merits of each individual. It is not only the plain duty, but also the interest of us all, to have every colored man take the place for which he is best fitted by education, character, ability, manners, and culture. If others insist on keeping him in any lower and poorer place, it is not only his injury, but our universal loss. Yet which of our white congregations would take a colored pastor? How many of our New England villages would like to have colored postmasters, or doctors, or lawyers, or teachers in the public schools? A very slight difference in complexion suffices to keep a young man from getting a place as policeman, or fireman, or conductor, even on the horse cars. The trades-unions are closed against him, and so are many of our stores; while those which admit him are obliged to refuse him promotion on account of the unwillingness of white men to serve under him. View quote
Frederick Douglass
The gentleman knows that whatever is imperfect and unrefined does not deserve praise. ... He makes his eyes not want to see what is not right, makes his ears not want to hear what is not right, makes his mouth not want to speak what is not right, and makes his heart not want to deliberate over what is not right. ... For this reason, power and profit cannot sway him, the masses cannot shift him, and nothing in the world can shake him. View quote
Xun Zi
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason. View quote
Sean Combs
"Black with hate,” said Becca. "You are gathering your people with hate.” "Can you imagine conducting a war with love?” asked Ta-Kumsaw. "That's a reason to refuse to make war at all,” she said gently. View quote
Orson Scott Card
In the absence of understanding, that was a good a reason as any for living together and making babies and raising them up and throwing them out of the house and then going through the long slow decline together until one of them died and left the other alone again, understanding as little as ever about what their spouses really wanted, who they really were. Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference? View quote
Orson Scott Card
He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter. View quote
Orson Scott Card
I've never seen a soft heart turn hard,” said Taleswapper. "At least not without good reason. (Orson Scott Card)
Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised? View quote
Orson Scott Card
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. View quote
Orson Scott Card
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? View quote
Anthony Burgess
...in the Restoration period, feeling and imagination were mistrusted: feeling implied strong convictions, and strong convictions had produced a Civil War and the harsh rule of the Commonwealth; imagination suggested the mad, the wild, the uncouth, the fanatical. It was best to live a calm civilised life governed by reason. Such a life is best lived in the town, and the town is the true centre of culture; the country estates are impoverished, and little of interest is going on there; the country itself is barbaric. View quote
Anthony Burgess
I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything. View quote
Josh Groban
The point where he does resemble his ideal is in his faithfulness. I am fully prepared to allow the shy young man that virtue: he is constant in his love. But the reason is not far to seek. The fact is it exhausts all his stock of courage to look one woman in the face, and it would be simply impossible for him to go through the ordeal with a second. He stands in far too much dread of the whole female sex to want to go gadding about with many of them. One is quite enough for him. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. View quote
Jay Leno
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. (Laurence Sterne)
Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
He had not only known that I would be coming to see him, I realized, but had anticipated the reason for my visit. And in typical southern fashion, he'd given me the answer to my problem, without my ever having to ask him directly. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. View quote
Nicholas Sparks