"It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free."

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Source : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.124, Broadview Press

Thomas Clarkson

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“There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.”
“We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”
“And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.”
“When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam's fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.”
“There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.”
“Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.”

Source : "Interview with Gordon Ramsay About Masterchef". Interview with Brett Moore, www.thespruce.com. November 17, 2016.
“There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.”

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