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Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.
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I want to tell the good people of this state as a judge of the 3rd Judicial Circuit, if I didn’t have what it took to treat a man fair regardless of his color, then I don’t have what it takes to be the governor of your great state.
george wallace— First gubernatorial campaign (1958), quoted in George Wallace: Conservative Populist (2004) by Lloyd Earl Rohler
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.
irena sendler— Quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (2005-03-03)
I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
malcolm (malcolm little) x— Interview (January 1965?)
The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.
Andrea Dworkin— Woman Hating, ch. 9, p. 23, E.P. Dutton, New York (1974)
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, The Bard, (1757), II, 2, Line 9.
regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.
leymah gbowee— Gruber Foundation, Women's Rights Prize (2009)
The idea of preaching the gospel to all nations alike, regardless of nationality, of internal divisions as to rank and color, complexion and religion, constituted the beginning of a new era in history. You cannot preach the gospel in its purity over the world, without proclaiming the doctrine of civil and religious liberty, without overthrowing the barriers reared between nations and clans and classes of men, without ultimately undermining the thrones of despots, and breaking off the shackles of slavery, without making men everywhere free.
— Albert Barnes, p. 289. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. People whose ancestors lived in France or the area that later became France (including French Algeria which was an integral part of French territory from 1848 to 1962).. Sourced
— Charles Seignobos, A History of the French People (1934), Read Books, 2006, p.33
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble , and serve womankind , regardless of rank, age, or color.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott, in Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Warm You in Cold Weather: Little Women .., p.366
The president needs to know it is all a setup. He needs to know that regardless of whether he steps in or not, and I would argue he should definitely not, the deep state tonight is crumbling from within at this very hour.
sean hannity— Hannity on the Fox News Channel, 21 September 2018
Weather abroad And weather in the heart alike come on regardless of prediction.
— 1951A Change ofWorld,'StormWarnings'.
"Oklahoma is, they're Oklahoma. It doesn't matter what their ranking is. I mean, whether they're 0-4 or 4-0 like they are right now, they're going to be Oklahoma. ...regardless of their ranking, we know it's going to be a really tough battle."
— Hawkins, Dan. Ringo, Kyle (2007-09-24). "Buffs vow not to be intimidated by OU". BuffZone.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-25.
"I think we should take money from everyone," I told her, "regardless of their ability to pay. After all, this is America."
joe bob briggs— La Femme Nikita review[5]
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, "making it", or success.
joyce brothers— As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 71
If, however, one factor is too successful, it will continue to be the winning factor regardless of the variation in the other factors over the range of variation in the conditions, and therefore will stifle the development of other advantageous factors until the conditions change sufficiently that it no longer is the winning factor. At this point, the whole population is ill prepared for the change, and may well perish entirely if the winning factor accidentally becomes the matching factor for a disease or a predator.
erik naggum— Re: O'reilly subjugated to the Lisp juggenaut (Usenet article)
In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.
norman vincent peale— Confident Living (1948), p. 5
Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?
hannah arendt— p. 5 (The Life of the Mind (1971/1978))
If this truth has once and for all been discarded and men have decided for integral adjustment, if reason has been purged of all morality regardless of cost, and has triumphed over all else, no one may remain outside and look on. The existence of one solitary "unreasonable" man elucidates the shame of the entire nation. His existence testifies to the relativity of the system of radical self-preservation that has been posited as absolute.
max horkheimer— p. 45 ("The End of Reason" (1941))
Yet this is a truth people so easily seem to forget and begin to prize local, sectional or provincial interests above and regardless of the national interests. It naturally pains me to find the curse of provincialism holding sway over any section of Pakistan. Pakistan must be rid of this evil.
muhammad ali jinnah— Reply to the Civic Address presented by the Quetta Municipality (15 June 1948)
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.
dmitri shostakovich— Letter to Isaac Glikman, August 28, 1955; Josiah Fisk & Jeff Nichols (eds.) Composers on Music (1997) p. 364.
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.
l. neil smith— Zero Aggression Principle ("ZAP"), from "Who is a Libertarian?"
[I have conceived] a means that will make it possible for man to transmit energy in large amounts, thousands of horsepower, from one planet to another, absolutely regardless of distance. I think that nothing can be more important than interplanetary communication. It will certainly come some day. and the certitude that there are other human beings in the universe, working, suffering, struggling, like ourselves, will produce a magic effect on mankind and will form the foundation of a universal brotherhood that will last as long as humanity itself. - Nikola Tesla
— Tesla's statement on the Teslascope, which was published by Time magazine in their July 20, 1931 issue celebrating Tesla's 75th birthday.
Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.
— Sir John Harvey-Jones (1882), in Contact - asceis-ices | VIT
We have really put the duh in democracy, creating a perverse equality that entitles everyone to speak to every issue, regardless of how much they know about it.
— Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains, p. 13.
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.
— L. Neil Smith, and Rylla Cathryn Smith, the "Zero Aggression Principle" in What Libertarians Believe, Introduction: The Zero Aggression Principle
regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
bodhidharma— The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.
sonia sotomayor— Reported in Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Woman in the News: Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer", The New York Times (26 May 2009)
regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.
doron zeilberger— An Enquiry Concerning Human (and Computer!) [Mathematical] Understanding C.S. Calude, ed., "Randomness & Complexity, from Leibniz to Chaitin", World Scientific, Singapore, (October 2007)
What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.
— Bastian, in Ch. IV : Ygramul the Many
