Sarah Vowell Quotes
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
Sarah Vowell
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
Larry Flynt
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Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
Patrick Henry
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
Oscar Wilde
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In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.
Dalai Lama
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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.
Abraham Lincoln
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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others.
Abraham Lincoln
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
Jonathan Swift
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I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent
in any iota of the world;
I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects,
vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than
I have supposed.
Walt Whitman
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Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
Norm MacDonald
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
Al-Ghazali
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In a certain sense the liberation of slaves is the destruction of property – acquired by descent or by purchase, the same as any other property.
Abraham Lincoln
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
Nat King Cole
