Benjamin F. Wade Quotes
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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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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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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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.
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Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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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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It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.
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There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men, and it's reflected in the scripts they buy and the work that gets made.
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I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.
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Meadows trim, with daisies pied,Shallow brooks, and rivers wide;Towers and balements it seesBosomed high in tufted trees,Where perhaps some beauty lies,The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
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If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
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Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.
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I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
