Gary Haugen Quotes
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
Quotes to Explore
-
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
-
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.
-
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of 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!
-
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
-
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
-
I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
-
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
-
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
-
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
-
The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
-
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
-
Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
-
I walked around feeling, in a sense, that people of color, we began at the bottom of a slave ship. We were enslaved; we picked cotton. There was Honest Abe, who wore a top hat and was taller than anyone and who said, 'Enough is enough; slavery must end.' And then, black people could stand up again. But after that, we didn't catch up.
-
'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
-
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.
-
Modern morality is all about perception.
-
I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
-
Even though the play [The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.
-
Almost any modern video camera can take stills, so there's always this fresh crop of kids that like making things and moving them by hand. So it's as much our desire to keep it going as what we believe is the public's desire for handmade stuff that really feels handmade, where they aren't being tricked into it being handmade.
-
The American public is a very specialized public. The reason it is taken as a realistic film is because inside the fable, I've put that kind of reality in. And it could easily be called, instead of Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time There Was a Certain Kind of Cinema. Because it was also an homage to cinema.
-
I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.
-
It's up to you to make every day as perfect as possible - it's a question of will and discipline.
-
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
