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"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." »Marc Chagall
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"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes." »Jonathan Swift
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"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable." »Anonymous
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"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere." »Jane Austen
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"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end." »H.L. Mencken
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"Blushing is the color of virtue." »Laertius Diogenes
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"Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"If your only measure of value is color, then you shall never appreciate the transparence of diamonds." »Ameer Sadet Mahdy
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""don't judge a man by the color of his skin,but by his actinos"" »Jason B.
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"Favorite color: I hate colors." »Ian Shoales
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"Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment." »Learned Hand
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"Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future." »Bourke Cockran
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"Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind." »Austin O'Malley
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"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry." »Calvin Trillin
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"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope." »John Johnson
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"Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people." »Ben Harper
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"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color." »Johann von Goethe
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"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful." »Margaret Mead
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"I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves." »Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
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"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability." »Tom Lehrer
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"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart." »Hal Borland
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"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color." »Seneca
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"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon." »George Aiken
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"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees." »David Letterman
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"A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That's journalism." »Burton Rascoe
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