Blood Purity

Blood purity may refer to:

  • Blood Quanta and Blood quantum laws, tribal concepts of percentage of Native American blood in an individual
  • Blood purity (Harry Potter), purity of wizarding ancestry in the fictional Harry Potter series

Famous quotes containing the words blood and/or purity:

    Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the
    Light—
    The marrow in the bone
    We dreamed was safe . . . the blood in the veins, the
    sap in the tree
    Were springs of Deity.
    Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

    In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)