“ I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. ”
- Stevie Smith- Copy
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“ To understand me well, compare the familiarities of Montaigne with those of Aristide Bruant or the elbowings of a sensationalist newspaper with the brutalities of Bossuet jostling the Protestants. ”
- Max Jacob- Copy
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“ The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. ”
- Orson Welles- Copy
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“ America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
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“ Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one — it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo-Saxons and Protestants. ”
- Harold Cruse- Copy
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“ We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!". ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned… ”
- Martin Niemﾃｶller- Copy
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“ What's the difference, actually, between believing in a God on one side or the other, Catholic or Protestant? It's all the same if you accept it. Much of our morality is based on things completely outmoded. But people are wonderful. There's no harm in them, they're not the problem… ”
- John Hurt- Copy
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“ How extraordinary that so many men and women who are not Catholic felt themselves bound together in mourning with collective memory a religious man who transcended parochial appeal. Not many men journey across the human stage as such a figure of unity… ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
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“ In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist… ”
- Martin Niemoeller- Copy
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“ I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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