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 must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
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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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Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
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I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?
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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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The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
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So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.
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Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.
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A good thing this was, and that we should be so care-free and irresponsible, enjoying every minute of every day; for it was the Easter of 1914, the last Easter of the old, easy world, and our last, as well as our first, Easter as children together in the little house I had built for happiness.
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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
