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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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
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If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
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The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.
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I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.
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I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.
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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
