Civilest Sb Quotes & Sayings

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation. — John Quincy Adams

Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart. — Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows. — A.A. Gill

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born. — W. H. Auden

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it. — Barack Obama

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it. — Yehuda Amichai

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. — George Bernard Shaw

I love you, and I love the world, and I love it more with every new inch I discover. But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you. And you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful
the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your furtive movements. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. — Eknath Easwaran

I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me. — Juliet Aubrey