Enslavement To Emancipation Quotes & Sayings

Forgiveness is a powerful thing. — Elin Hilderbrand

Happiness is a how, not a what. A talent, not an object. — Hermann Hesse

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too? — Rodney Dangerfield

The first thousand are the hardest. — Herbert Gute

Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes. — Luis Walter Alvarez

The evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people. — Mao Tse-tung

When I got discharged from the Army, I made a vow never to go back on an Army post. No big deal, just a simple lifelong vow. — William Goldman

I believe in the old saying that if you can't measure something, you can't improve it. — Patrick Lencioni

Both Lear and Washington held fast to paternalistic assumptions about African slavery, believing that enslaved men and women were better off with a generous owner than emancipated and living independent lives. Decades later, Southerners would justify the institution of slavery with descriptions of the supposed benefits that came with enslavement. According to many Southerners, slaves were better cared for, better fed, sheltered, and treated almost as though they were members of the family. Northern emancipation left thousands of ex-slaves without assistance, and Southerners charged that free blacks were living and dying in the cold alleyways of the urban North. Many believed Northern freedom to be a far less humane existence, one that left black men and women to die in the streets from exposure and starvation. But — Erica Armstrong Dunbar

If philosophy is mountain climbing
then literature is an anti-gravity parade
I love thee like a leper colony
loves to make a trade — Carl-John X. Veraja

So men are not from Mars, nor are women from Venus. Men and women are from Africa, the cradle of our evolution, where they evolved together as a single species. — Steven Pinker

Who am i, really? What does any of it mean? i'm so afraid someday everyone will see that i'm just an imposter, a fake, among all the real and gorgeous godheads.
- — Catherynne M Valente

My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this. — Shaquille O'Neal