Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Slavery

• Let my enemies devour each other.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Enemies
  • Other
  • Devour

• These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Done
  • Liberty
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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
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• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Stronger

• For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Real
  • Job
  • Dreams

• President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • President
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  • Reagan

• An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
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  • None

• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Human
  • Slavery
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• I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I believe that modern slavery is the most outrageous assault on the rights of an individual. It is something that touches me deeply because I grew up in rural Brazil and could see first-hand how poverty forced people to work in harsh, exploitative conditions.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Up
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• I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Time
  • History
  • Silence

• Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

  

  W. L. George
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Enemies

• Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Present
  • Slavery

• Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

  

  Plato
  • Lies
  • Slavery

• You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Technology
  • Slavery

• We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Future
  • Society

• Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Sides
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• No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It's the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Universe
  • Matter
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• The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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