"Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery."

-- Manisha Sinha

#Ongoing Quotes #Slavery Quotes #Way Quotes

“I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.”
“I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.”
“In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.”
“I more or less intended it (the farewell tour) to be for the United Kingdom and not so much over here, but everywhere I've worked, they've been aware this is my final tour ? my final year ? which in all likelihood is gonna be the case.”
“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.”
“They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.”

Source : "Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange" compiled by David Barber, 1987.
“If you think you cannot do it, you set yourself up to fail anyway. Maybe it will take one more try to do it, and that is what life is about. If you don't get it right on the first try, you try again. You keep doing it and doing it until you find success!”
“I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.”

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