{"quotes":[{"text":"My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom.","author":"Samuel Morse","tags":["benevolent","creed","disciplinary","divine","divine-wisdom","sin","slavery","social-condition","subject","wisdom","wise"],"id":879,"author_id":"Samuel+Morse"},{"text":"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["artist","belief","brain","cognition","confession","consideration","creativity","creed","death","discard","funny","funny-but-true","habits","honesty","humor","instinct","intellectual","intuition","irrational","knowledge","life","logic","mind","negativity","old-habits","old-person","opinion","original-thought","positivity","precious","psychology","rational","rationalization","sentimental","stubborn","think","thinker","thinking","thought","thoughts","tradition","treasure","valuable","wisdom"],"id":6887,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I wake up to find magic, I seek dreams and I crave imagination. This is my creed.","author":"Anastasia Bolinder","tags":["creed","creed-to-live-by","dream","dreaming","dreams-inspirational","dreams","imagination","magic","write","writer"],"id":7278,"author_id":"Anastasia+Bolinder"},{"text":"Blame is the creed of the disempowered.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["blame","creed","disempowered","happiness","inspirational","life","motivational","success"],"id":8654,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"Love is kind, Love endures, Love is the machine fueled by hate, We love our race; we kill in the name of it, We destroy lives, and we raise our flag high, so others can see what we can do,We proclaim our race, and our creed, We love our God, and we kill in his name, Hallowed be the name of love, We love our woman and the choice to murder life,We Love; and the fruits of Love are here for us to see,Love came to show us hell,Love came to give us choice, Love’s the machine, and its fuel is hateBlessed be the name of love, the force behind our pride, Love, the flag displayed up high, to show others love is on our side,Love gave us Choice, murder of fetuses,Love your race,hang them if not like you, slaved them, torture them, Murder in the name of Love!“Love and do what you will” (St. Augustine).","author":"Quetzal","tags":["choice","creed","hate","love","murder","others","race"],"id":11940,"author_id":"Quetzal"},{"text":"I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["creed","evil","slavery","superstition","war"],"id":21639,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"Standard is not the money you have nor the creed you belong to ,truly IT IS CHARACTER......","author":"Zainab Asif","tags":["character","creed","standard"],"id":23680,"author_id":"Zainab+Asif"},{"text":"The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["choice","creed","future","integrity","mind","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion","value"],"id":28447,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beauvoir","creed","emotion","et-cetera","fighting-for-truth","independence","joan-of-arc","love","meaning","monotony","passion","princess-leia","purpose","sacrifice","stowe","strength","xena"],"id":33807,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Sometimes dead is better.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["creed","dead","death","undead"],"id":34094,"author_id":"Stephen+King"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}