Ned Sublette Quotes
That now-archaic word “likely,” ubiquitous in slave sale advertisements, had a cluster of converging meanings: vigorous, strong, capable, good-looking, attractive, promising—in other words, likely to reproduce.
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It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
Kevin Bales
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.
Axel Munthe
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
Walt Disney
It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
Nadine Gordimer
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
William Cowper
As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!"
Anderson Cooper
Bottom line is, off-beat film or commercial films, Tollywood or Bollywood, it's the role that matters to me.
Swara Bhaskar
I'm also alternative because of Canada - there's something romantic about being Canadian. We're a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized, and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact that I'm Canadian.
K. D. Lang
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That now-archaic word “likely,” ubiquitous in slave sale advertisements, had a cluster of converging meanings: vigorous, strong, capable, good-looking, attractive, promising—in other words, likely to reproduce.
Ned Sublette