Canela De Velho Quotes & Sayings

On island after island, Europeans and their pathogens killed the natives, slave ships appeared on the horizon, and cane sprouted in the fields. Streams of survivors crawled forth from slave ships to replenish the cane-field work gangs of men and women as they died. But enslavers grew fabulously rich. — Edward E. Baptist

Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of minorities. And when the soul of a nation finally speaks, the institutions that arise may reflect customs and traditions very different from our own. America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way. — George W. Bush

I lay in one of those protracted moments of rapture which scatter this journey like asteriks. A little more, I felt, and I would have gone up like a rocket. — Patrick Leigh Fermor

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality. — Lawrence Kushner

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them. — Andre Gide

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. — H.L. Mencken