Toussaint Louverture (François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture) Quotes

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

Toussaint Louverture

• Freedom
• Color
• Own
• Arms
• Defend
• Our
• Perish

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• I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

  

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• In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

  

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• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

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• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

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• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  

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• Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

  

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• No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

  

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• I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

  

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• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

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• I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

  

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  • School
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• Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  

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• So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.

  

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• I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.

  

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• Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.

  

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• (Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.

  

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• The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

  

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• There's a lot of freedom to do anything you want in Mexico. It's just that that freedom belongs to a few. It's a huge country with a big contrast. There is this big inequality, so those like us that have the chance to do things, we know we are very lucky.

  

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• I need freedom to be happy.

  

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• People make their own luck.

  

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• It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

  

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• I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Freedom
  • Color
  • Own