Eugene V. Debs Quotes
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
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We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.
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The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.
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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
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Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?
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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
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When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
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I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
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I don't care who they put out there. We're going to try to whip whoever they put out there.
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You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
