"How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves"

Source : Letter to Thomas Jefferson on slavery, August 19, 1791.

Benjamin Banneker

#Father Quotes #Rights Quotes #Violence Quotes

“It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.”
“We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.”
“And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.”
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.”

Source : "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.
“You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2008). “The Night My Sister Went Missing”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.”

Source : "Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship". Book by Pierre Boulez, 1991.
“I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.”

Source : "I'm a horrible bully" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2003.
“The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true.”

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