Oppressions Of Slavery Quotes & Sayings

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. — Thomas Jefferson

Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa ... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty ... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies ... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die ... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained. — St. George Tucker

I soon learned how to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential. — Albert Einstein

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. — Laura Linney

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it. — Dick Butkus

But at the end of the day, everything I do costs me. The only question is how much. — Tabitha McGowan

The first priority of the family should be to establish a quality of relationship with each other that is a reflection of an authentic relationship with God. That may have been what Paul was aiming at when he wrote to the church in Ephesians 5 and 6 about the family. — Reggie Joiner

You don't just see and feel the movie, you see and feel every day you worked on it. — Timothy Hutton

The people had fled into the buildings, but the thick, salty mark of their fear still hung heavy in the air, coagulating with the bees' magical stench of rotting, acid-dripping flowers into a nauseating miasma of crumbling courage and ill intentions. — Ella Summers

The level of credit in Mexico has shown to be low. And where credit concentrates the most favors large corporations and not companies. — Enrique Pena Nieto