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Crimes, racism, and rape, Just to name a Few Violence Against Christians, a war to reshape. And yet, in God we trust, they dare profess, What God is this, with such moral regress? Tell me, people, tell me, world so wide, What God is this, where sins abide? For the God I know rejects abomination, – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 1 month ago
The principles that we profess – they are enshrined within our mission statement and bylaws, but we’re more than that. … These are our neighbors, our cousins – we see each other in a grocery store. So, it was bigger than that. And we decided that we needed to communicate differently. – Elizer Darris	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. – Frederick Douglass	added by Normando 1 year ago
taking risks is the religion I profess after Islam – AMYNE E. QASEM	added by Aeqasem 1 year ago
They at least profess to agree with us that a functioning, secure, and operational airport is essential to the well-being of the Afghan people and the maintenance of the Afghan economy. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We must once again openly profess our faith, our devotion to our families, and proclaim, unapologetically, the words, ‘ I am Mike Pompeo,'. – Mike Pompeo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance. – David Bowie	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Women who profess the Christian religion, must be modest in apparel.” – Matthew Henry	added by anonymous 5 years ago
Picking Pence shows that he maybe doesn’t care about that community as much as he tried to profess that he did. – Megan Robertson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
When I talk to my peer CEOs and other entrepreneurs, the sort of vision we lay out here and the ideas we profess, these are not crazily unique perspectives. I hear them from a lot of other CEOs and entrepreneurs, my hope is a future where it is not news when somebody becomes a PBC [public benefit company] -- it’s actually very typical. – Yancey Strickler	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Our pitch to clients is that it is not about being all things to all people, we profess to be experts with international and Asian ETFs. – Morgan Potter	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You would expect something like that from someone in government who didn’t profess to be for peaceful protests. – Norman Siegel	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
From a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith – their faith – profess to stand up for Islam but in fact are betraying it. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime. – Socrates	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground. – Frederick Douglass 1817-1895	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. – Frederick Douglas	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. – John Quincy Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. – Corra Harris	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Janos Arnay	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. – Frederick Douglas	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Crimes, racism, and rape, Just to name a Few Violence Against Christians, a war to reshape. And yet, in God we trust, they dare profess, What God is this, with such moral regress? Tell me, people, tell me, world so wide, What God is this, where sins abide? For the God I know rejects abomination,

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
1 month ago

The principles that we profess – they are enshrined within our mission statement and bylaws, but we’re more than that. … These are our neighbors, our cousins – we see each other in a grocery store. So, it was bigger than that. And we decided that we needed to communicate differently.

– Elizer Darris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

– Frederick Douglass

added by Normando
1 year ago

taking risks is the religion I profess after Islam

– AMYNE E. QASEM

added by Aeqasem
1 year ago

They at least profess to agree with us that a functioning, secure, and operational airport is essential to the well-being of the Afghan people and the maintenance of the Afghan economy.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We must once again openly profess our faith, our devotion to our families, and proclaim, unapologetically, the words, ‘ I am Mike Pompeo,'.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

– David Bowie

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Women who profess the Christian religion, must be modest in apparel.”

– Matthew Henry

added by anonymous
5 years ago

Picking Pence shows that he maybe doesn’t care about that community as much as he tried to profess that he did.

– Megan Robertson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When I talk to my peer CEOs and other entrepreneurs, the sort of vision we lay out here and the ideas we profess, these are not crazily unique perspectives. I hear them from a lot of other CEOs and entrepreneurs, my hope is a future where it is not news when somebody becomes a PBC [public benefit company] -- it’s actually very typical.

– Yancey Strickler

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Our pitch to clients is that it is not about being all things to all people, we profess to be experts with international and Asian ETFs.

– Morgan Potter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You would expect something like that from someone in government who didn’t profess to be for peaceful protests.

– Norman Siegel

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

From a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith – their faith – profess to stand up for Islam but in fact are betraying it.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

– Frederick Douglass

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

– Socrates

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

– Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.

– Frederick Douglass 1817-1895

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

– Frederick Douglas

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

– John Quincy Adams

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.

– Unknown