Separation Quotes - Page 3

• I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Believe, America

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Happiness, Happy, Being Yourself

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.204, Penguin

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• And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

  Junot Diaz

  Love, Relationship, Break Up

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

  Halle Berry

  Character, Self, People

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• Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

  David Duke

  Government, Media, Ku Klux Klan

  "Duke Speaks Out". "The Crusader Newspaper", November 1978.

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• One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Together, Decay

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• The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Use, Britain

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.90, Penguin

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• Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Inspiration, Long

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #37 (B&S), 1798.

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• Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

  Earl Warren

  Educational, Board Of Education, Separate But Equal

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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• Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

  Simone Weil

  God, Wall, Communication

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.200, U of Nebraska Press

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• The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

  James A. Garfield

  Divorce, Organization, Community

  Remark during Congressional debate. "Congressional Record", 43rd Congress, 1st Session, p. 5384, memory.loc.gov. June 22, 1874.

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• It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, God, Religious

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Night, Ideas

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• You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.

  David Whyte

  Divorce, People, Way

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1092, e-artnow

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• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America

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• The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

  James Madison

  Numbers, People, Religion

  James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.432

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• Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Wall

  Reply to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson (committee of the Danbury, Conn., Baptist Association), 1 Jan. 1802

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• Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

  Boy George

  Long Distance Relationship, Radiance, Absence

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• The difference between divorce and legal separation is that legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Money, Husband

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• Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  School, Forever, Political

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture of New Orleans”, p.400

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• Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

  James Madison

  Successful, Perfect, Presidential

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.89, University of Virginia Press

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• Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Connections, Realization

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 09, 2014

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• Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Death, Time, Islamic

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