Arthur Tappan Abolitionist Quotes & Sayings

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden. — Socrates

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify. — Henry Giroux

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl. — Kelly Link

And I gave Malfoy a black eye, and Neville tried to take on Crabbe and Goyle single-handed! He's still out cold but Madam Pomfrey says he'll be all right - talk about showing Slytherin! — J.K. Rowling

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The more angles I see, the more confused I get. — Phil Simms

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being. — Laz Alonso

In keeping with the theme of "I got my hands on," my brother and I would listen to The Diceman Cometh. That was the dirtiest thing we'd ever heard, and we could listen to that at full volume without fear of penalty, because my mom couldn't hear that either. I wasn't a huge comedy fan growing up, but I definitely listened to Andrew Dice Clay a lot. — Moshe Kasher

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine. — Henry A. Kissinger