Wasif Ali Wasif Quotes

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

Wasif Ali Wasif

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

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Slavery

• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Order

• 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
  • Slavery

• 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
  • Peace

• In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Order
  • Deal
  • Traditional

• The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • World
  • Country
  • Slavery

• What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

  

  P. D. James
  • Story
  • Order
  • Detective

• In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Suffering
  • Order
  • Cruel

• 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
  • Work

• 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

• All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Women
  • Order
  • Sobriety

• Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Order

• If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Words
  • Slavery

• 'The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Slavery

• I shall honour the Quakers for their noble Effort to abolish Slavery. It is equally calculated to promote moral & political Good.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Good
  • Political
  • Effort

• In all this I can see but the doom of slavery. The North do not want, nor will they want, to interfere with the institution. But they will refuse for all time to give it protection unless the South shall return soon to their allegiance.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Slavery

• 'Man's inhumanity to man' is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Truth
  • Struggle
  • Lies

• The Confederacy was so entwined with the idea of preserving slavery that the flag, even today, can evoke racial polarization...

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Today
  • Slavery

• Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Free
  • Words
  • Lying

• The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

  

  Scott McCallum
  • People
  • Business
  • Political

• I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

  

  Felice Picano
  • American
  • Law
  • Legal

• In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Slavery
  • Order
  • Labour