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Roger Williams Theologian, Minister
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"My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance."

Men Jesus Color
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul."

Heart Reality Color
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter."

Mean Color Self Esteem
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color."

Attitude White Color
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"Where did the concept of "without borders" come from? No one had that concept until you saw Earth from space, illustrated not by a mapmaker who's color-coding political boundaries; it's illustrated by nature itself and there's land, there's ocean, there's atmosphere."

Land Color Ocean
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"I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball."

Believe Color Baseball
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"Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?"

Flower Color Focus
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Lewis Tappan Abolitionist, Philanthropist
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"You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!"

Joy Color Friendly
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"Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple."

Life Names Color
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Heraclitus Philosopher
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"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day."

Thinking Light Color
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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist
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"The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first."

Order Color Finishing
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Joshua Reynolds Painter
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"Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity."

Two Color Simplicity
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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on."

Black Color Denim
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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements."

Men Ideas Color
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