Sposato Graduate Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly contradicting the moral basis of slavery, writing "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights ... " thus undercutting simultaneously any argument that Africans were racially inferior, and also that they or their ancestors could ever have been justly and legally deprived of their freedom. In doing so, however, he did not propose some radically new conception of rights and liberties. Neither have subsequent political philosophers. For the most part, we've just kept the old ones, but with the word "not" inserted here and there. Most of our most precious rights and freedoms are a series of exceptions to an overall moral and legal framework that suggests we shouldn't really have them in the first place. — David Graeber

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other. — Matthew Henry

There is, in short,
something terribly wrong with claiming to be a devout Christian while hating one or another of the fellow believers. — Ben Witherington III

I am a Woman: an emblem of dignity; loving, caring, healing...scintillating, inspiring and appealing... — Mallika Tripathi

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson