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.William Wells Brown
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
Aaron McGruder -
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
Dana Rohrabacher -
Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
Karen Bender -
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.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster -
When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
Dana Brunetti
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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.
G. Stanley Hall -
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo -
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck -
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.
Flora Lewis -
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.'
Cameron Mackintosh -
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.
Sam Brownback
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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.
Cao Cao -
Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.
Warren Spector -
I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.
Calvin Johnson -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Oriana Fallaci -
Like the Paris riots, the struggle over French history raises grave questions for Europe. How does the presence of 20 million Muslims who come from nations where men believe their grandfathers were exploited and persecuted by Europeans advance the unity and security of Europe? How is Europe made stronger by such 'diversity'?
Pat Buchanan
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I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.
Kevin Whately -
I know, that obscure as I am, my name is making a considerable deal of fuss in the world. I can't tell why it is, nor in what it is to end. Go where I will, everybody seems anxious to get a peep at me … There must therefore be something in me, or about me, that attracts attention, which is even mysterious to myself.
Davy Crockett -
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
Herbie Hancock -
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.
Jock Sturges -
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.
William Wells Brown