William Wells Brown Quotes
The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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I struggle with control.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
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I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'
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I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
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What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
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Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.
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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
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One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.
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The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
