"Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it"

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Source : Elizabeth Keckley (1868). “Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house”, p.33

Elizabeth Keckley

#Masters Quotes

“I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.”
“Probably looking at a piece of paper and all the features of a minivan, the minivan is probably the best car in the world.”

Source : "Interview: Henrik Fisker talks new companies, the future of car design and ... minivans". Interview with C.C. Weiss, newatlas.com. December 24, 2016.
“He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.”
“Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.”

Source : William Blackstone (1922). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books”, p.45, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
“Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.”
“If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.”
“The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. "The truth" outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself.”
“The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.”

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