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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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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I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.
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I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country.
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What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
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I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.
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All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are not equal. Moreover, an employer has aproperty rights to prefer whom he will in terms of "color" creed, race or national origin.
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There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.
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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.