#grounds

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected. ↗

— Marilyn French

#another #anyone #because #demonstrate #determined

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#america #any #backgrounds #divided #east

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#america #around #backgrounds #common #common language

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds. ↗

— Ernest Istook

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We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds. ↗

— Igor Ivanov

#believe #council #especially #force #grounds

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#aristocracy #grounds #men #natural #talents

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#events #excuse #explain #grounds #indulge

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#car #chicago #colors #detroit #gangster

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#again #clause #commerce #conservatives #court

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#grounds #modesty #must #our #over