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:

    Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks,
    And given my treasures and my rights of thee
    To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Who knows what sort of life would result if we attained to purity? If I knew so wise a man as could teach me purity I would go to seek him forthwith.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)