(559 quotes found)
“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”
Frederick Buechner
“It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.”
John Lennon
“The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness”
Marcus Garvey
“Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
Douglas MacArthur
“The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.”
Emilio Ambasz
“Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.”
Jesse Jackson
“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”
Josephine Baker
“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
Mel Brooks
“Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.”
Jennifer Lopez
“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”
Kofi Annan
