"As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions. Our system, therefore, so far as regards this inferior race, rests upon this great immutable law of nature."

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Source : "What America Needs To Understand About Confederate Monuments" by Brandon Benner, www.theodysseyonline.com. June 12, 2017.

Alexander H. Stephens

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“When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should have been something sad about how little he was tied up with the place, but instead it felt like freedom. He was free because it wasn't his water here, and they weren't his fish.”
“A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.”
“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.”
“CinderHeart: Youâ€™re the one that changed every thing. LoinBlaze: No. This was all decided before I was born.”
“From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core.”

Source : "Interview: Trey Songz Talks Complex Fashion Shoot and Musical Influences". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.
“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”
“I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.”
“You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.89, Head of Zeus

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