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I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.: Andre Bernard Buruch
Prayer doesn't change things. It changes people and they change things.: Author Unknown
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.: Alec Waugh
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.: Johnson

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