Separation Quotes - Page 13

• How did Madison get separation through Virginia and later Congress? The Baptists, the Presbyterians, and the smaller sects hated Jefferson; to them he was a secularist of the worst kind. But Madison could get Jefferson's bill passed because the Baptists, the Presbyterians, and smaller sects who were excluded in New England and in the South got together for their own protection.

  John Rawls

  Virginia, Together, England

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.620, Harvard University Press

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• If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.

  Tara Brach

  Attachment, Judging, Persons

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical separation but it's not a psychological separation. He still thinks of her in, in probably warm terms. And, but after the physical separation has taken, existed for a period of time, it becomes a psychological separation as well as physical. And he can then look at her more objectively. My split or separation from the Black Muslim movement at first was only a physical separation, but my heart was still there and it was impossible for me to, for me to look at it objectively.

  Malcolm X

  Taken, Heart, Men

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black Muslim movement] became psychological as well as physical, so that I could look at it more objectively and - and separate that which was good from that which was bad.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Black, Middle East

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Vision, Church

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Giving, Political, Church

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  America, Church, Principles

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). That determines what we call their nature.

  Noam Chomsky

  Littles, Surprise, Hominids

  Source: libcom.org

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• The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

  Danny Glover

  Rights, Black, Movement

  Source: progressive.org

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• I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Thinking, People, Actresses

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Party, Goal

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- A Statesman And a Man Of Faith / With a lifetime of public service to his credit, the former president reflects on the beliefs that have sustained him". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. January 12, 1997.

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• I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Wall

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

  Jimmy Carter

  Father, Thinking, White

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

  Phil Collins

  Years, Hotel Lobby, Half

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• It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.

  Snoop Dogg

  Goodbye, Moving, Elements

  "What I've Learned: Snoop Dogg" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. July 14, 2008.

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• What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Law, Democracy, Mechanic

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• No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

  Dorothy Height

  Needs, Boat

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• In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Thinking, Two, Creating

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• The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Church, Doe

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• There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

  Val Kilmer

  Animal, People, Use

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• Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

  Christopher Lasch

  Spiritual, Religious, Religion And Politics

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• Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Soul

  William Law (1726). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection”, p.42

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• I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

  Ralph Nader

  Business, Thinking, Meals

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• Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Exercise, Government, President

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.185, Best Books on

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• The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Religious, Believe, Equality

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