I Quotes
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“If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil society's junior partners, to the dance of social death for hundreds of years, but few have wanted to learn the steps. They have been, and remain today - even in the most anti-racist movements, like the prison abolition movement - invested elsewhere. This is not to say that all oppositional political desire today is pro-white, but it is usually anti-Black, meaning it will not dance with death.”
“If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.”
Source: Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life
“If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.”
Source: The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death - like man. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be rats ourselves!”
“If we are to be truthful and frank, the real enemy, or public enemy number one, is ourselves. We need to look in the mirror. We don’t want to take accountability and responsibility. We are always looking for excuses to blame others for our misfortunes.
We have poisoned our minds with negativity, lies, fake stories, fabricated information, and seeing things that are not there. We have poisoned our hearts with hate, envy, and jealousy which makes us believe in things that are not happening. This causes us to accuse others for no reason, leading to stereotypes and racial profiling.
When we get the opportunity, we misuse it by doing wrong or harm. We steal from others, lie about others, block others' success, sabotage others, and even kill others. We set up situations and circumstances that hurt others and are unfair to them. We change the rules to our advantage because we want to benefit, but we exclude others in the process.
We think we are superior to everyone and deserve better than anyone else. Instead of sharing, being equal, and living harmoniously with everyone, we act selfishly.”
“If we are to be women in power, then it must be power on very different terms. we have to find a new source of energy. New structures of power. Ones that don’t deplete us or our environment. We need to run our lives on sustainable energy.”
Source: Burning Woman
“If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good purpose. The machine itself has neither mind nor soul nor moral sense. Only man has been endowed with these godlike attributes. Every age has its destined duty. Ours is to nurture an awareness of those divine attributes and a sense of responsibility in giving them expression.”
“If we are to begin to try and understand life as it will be in 1960,
we must begin by realizing that food, clothing and shelter will cost
as little as air”
“If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could be. If it could be somehow proved, then we would have no choice but to believe. We would lose our freedom not to believe. And in the very moment that we lost that freedom, we would cease to be human beings. Our love of God would have been forced upon us, and love that is forced is of course not love at all. Love must be freely given. Love must live in the freedom not to love; it must take risks. Love must be prepared to suffer even as Jesus on the Cross suffered, and part of that suffering is doubt.”
Source: The Magnificent Defeat
“If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.”
“If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.”
“If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on the other hand, says otherwise.”
“If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.”
Source: For God Alone
“If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.”
“If we are to change our world view, images have to change.”
Source: Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce
“If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.”
“If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.”
“If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.”
Source: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
“If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.”
Source: Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science
“If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.”
“If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.”
“If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.”
“If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things.”
Source: Collected Papers
“If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.”
Source: The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set
“If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore.”
“If we are to experience true worship, our love for God has to supersede our love of anyone and anything else.”
“If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but for others, since joy for ourselves depends upon our joy in others and theirs in us.”
“If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.”
Source: Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy
“If we are to free ourselves of fear we should embrace it, not avoid it. Avoiding fear gives it control, embracing fear releases it, which gives control to us.”
“If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.”
“If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.”
“If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.”
“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.”
“If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.”
“If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.”
Source: Community and Growth
“If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.”
“If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)”
“If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure should be maintained . . . perhaps increased . . .at the first sign of a decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and advertising expenditures.”
“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
“If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.”
“If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.”
“If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.”
“If we are to have hope and help in our hour of need, we need to know how to hear and recognize God's voice—not because we should do it, but because we get to.”
Source: Be Held By Him: Finding God When Life Knocks You Off Your Feet
“If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.”
“If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”
Source: The Trumpet of Conscience
“If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created.”
Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.”
Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion