Charles Lenox Remond Quotes
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
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You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!
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No more slave States and no more slave territory.
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It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.
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When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.
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Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.
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Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
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It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
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For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.
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If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
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You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.
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The content of many cutting-edge games is becoming more and more vivid, violent, and offensive to our most basic values.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?
