"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."

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Source : Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.421

Wendell Phillips

#Tyrants Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.”
“Your eyes make me shy”
“What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?”
“I'm not a victim. And the people who are victims of something, my heart is completely with them. But I'm not. I know I've been treated like a woman in this business [acting]. I mean I've got lots of stories, but they don't have any control over me.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Footballers are no different from human beings.”
“The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise.”
“There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”
“If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.”

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