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I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion. ↗

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#between #black #black and white #called #depression

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#crack #discussion #stand #universe

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#awful #being #believe #church #churches

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#church #door #fair #law #man

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#cash #extra #male #more #necessary

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#congress #enacted #i #i care #make

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#congress #gravitation #hear #kept #law

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. ↗