Stephen Ambrose Quotes
Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
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The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
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Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.
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Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
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It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.
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No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.
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We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.
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But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
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You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.
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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
