Reverends Quotes - Page 3

• New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Hate, Gay

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• The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Children, Echoes, Law

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.431

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• The United States, for its part, downgraded from low-level to complete withdrawal, much to the regret of other delegates such as the Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People’s Republic of Himself.

  Mark Steyn

  People, President, Republic

  "Mark Steyn: The Survival of Culture VI the Slyer Virus the West's Anti-Westernism". www.freerepublic.com. March 15, 2002.

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• As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Wisdom, Age

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.369

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• I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Marriage, Thinking, Gentleman

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.169, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine. Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms. And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel.

  Eugene Genovese

  Christian, Strong, Jesus

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• President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, War

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in politics when the black community has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is rarely, if ever, attacked for his involvement in politics.

  Kay Coles James

  Christian, Religious, Years

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• Following revelations that he fathered a love child, the good Reverend Jesse Jackson - or should we say the 'very' good Reverend - is enduring the scandal with the help of family and friends. A scandal which gives clearer meaning to the Rainbow Coalition's Operation 'Push'.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Giving, Rainbow

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• I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Giving Up, Heart, Grace

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.429, Open Road Media

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• To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

  Pope Francis

  Kings, Honor, Phrases

  Address at the White House, delivered 23 September 2015, South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

  John Webster

  Feet, Ruins, Ancient

  John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.97

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• Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Leader

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Men, White

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