Kevin Bales Quotes
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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.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
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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.
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'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style.
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Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.
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That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.
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We moved 23 times before I was out of high school!
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I did pick Lyft, but Lyft didn't seem amazing.
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My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
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It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
