Hinton Rowan Helper famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.
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I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.
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Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.
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Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.
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Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.
-- Hinton Rowan Helper
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Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.
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Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
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What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?
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Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.
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While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
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Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
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Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.
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