"Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters"

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George Fitzhugh

#Slavery Quotes #Abolishing Slavery Quotes #Slave Quotes

“You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?”
“I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.”
“The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.”
“...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.”
“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

Source : Cecil Castellucci (2011). “Boy Proof”, p.66, Candlewick Press
“I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.”
“The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed mothers spend as much time as those at home reading to and playing with their young children, although they do not, of course, spend as much time simply in the same room or house with the children.”
“By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.”

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