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  • Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself. -- Mark Steyn
  • Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose. -- Alice Cooper
  • Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years. -- Barack Obama
  • I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling! -- Tori Spelling
  • I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland -- Gerry Adams
  • President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war. -- William Bennett
  • Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison]. -- Malcolm X
  • The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless. -- Malcolm X
  • Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same." --Reverend Lovejoy -- Matt Groening
  • At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me. -- Malcolm X
  • Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison. -- Malcolm X
  • These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness. -- Brian Francis Slattery
  • I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America -- Bing Crosby
  • Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963] -- John F. Kennedy
  • Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition. -- Malcolm X
  • Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy." -- Winona Ryder
  • My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it. -- Malcolm X
  • Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences. -- Jerry Moran
  • I believe that Reverend [Florine] Thompson's hit on something. My parents, I and a lot of my friends growing up in that community had tremendous drive. -- Condoleezza Rice
  • I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics. -- Donna Brazile
  • Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ. -- Tina Brown
  • On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did. -- James Burrows
  • Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.' -- Daniel D. Palmer
  • To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it. -- Pope Francis
  • I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison. -- Malcolm X
  • An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.' -- Anatole France
  • The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place. -- Julian Bond
  • Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration. -- Will Ferrell
  • I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. -- Don DeLillo
  • The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal
  • Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human. -- Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it. -- Robert R. McCammon
  • When I used to work for Reverend Jesse Jackson he would say, "You've got to know the rules in order to break the rules." The 1988 campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson made fundamental changes to the way Democrats do business. -- Leah D. Daughtry
  • I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. -- Sun Myung Moon
  • Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts. -- David Limbaugh
  • Following revelations that he fathered a love child, the good Reverend Jesse Jackson - or should we say the 'very' good Reverend - is enduring the scandal with the help of family and friends. A scandal which gives clearer meaning to the Rainbow Coalition's Operation 'Push'. -- Jon Stewart
  • I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's fairy tales as well. (Katherine Rae O'Flaherty)Books are not the same as reality, Devlin stared at herMy world is not always kind to mortals. -- Melissa Marr
  • I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing. -- Omar Dorsey
  • I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's fairy tales as well. (Katherine Rae O'Flaherty) "Books are not the same as reality," Devlin stared at her. "My world is not always kind to mortals. -- Melissa Marr
  • I thought symphaths didn't have a conscience." "I'm half my mother's boy, too. So I have a little." "Aren't you lucky." The Reverend's chin dipped down, and his eyes flashed pure, purple evil for a split second. Then he smiled. "No"¦ all the rest of you are fortunate. -- J.R. Ward
  • But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality. -- Barack Obama
  • It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in politics when the black community has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is rarely, if ever, attacked for his involvement in politics. -- Kay Coles James
  • With deep emotion, genuine poise, and true dignity, Reverend Mrs. Ada Slaton Bonds became the first lady of the cloth in the Louisiana Presbytery. -- Reverend Loyce S. Estes
  • If ever there breathed a human soul who took personally the experience of Jesus reading from the Prophet Esaias, it was the Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds. -- Reverend Sam R. Estes
  • I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor. -- Joel Osteen
  • My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet, and within 15 seconds, I was printing out a certificate which allowed me to officiate at their wedding. -- Lucy Punch
  • Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. -- Thomas Traherne
  • As you are old and reverend, you should be wise. -- William Shakespeare
  • The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours. -- Isaac Watts
  • I'm rubbing on it, rub-rubbing, if you scared, call that reverend Boy, I'm drinking, get my brain right -- Beyonce
  • I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history. -- John Webster
  • The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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