Quotes about Culture
that this was the first time in the entire history of the Negro that a member of my race had been asked to speak from the same platform with white Southern men and women on any important National occasion. I was asked now to speak to an audience composed of the wealth and culture of the white South, the representatives of my former masters.
— Booker T. Washington
For the Greeks, beauty is truth; for the Hebrews, truth is beauty.
— Heinrich Heine
'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.
— James Dobson
I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you're a Christian you've got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It's no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that's going to go, 'Yeah, give me some of that?'
— Joyce Meyer
You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
— Ben Carson
Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
— Tina Turner
Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.
— Charles Swindoll
The Left has pushed immorality to the point we have so-called 'same-sex marriage' and 'transgender' nonsense trampling the rights of Christians.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
— Pope John Paul II
...oppression is as American as apple pie...
— Audre Lorde
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
— Gloria Steinem