"I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action."

--

Source : Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Slave Narrative Six Pack 2”, p.280, Enhanced Media Publishing

Elizabeth Keckley

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Earth Quotes

“When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.”
“I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.”
“Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most”
“What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.”
“In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”
“We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

You may also like:

Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
Gloria Reuben
Singer
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Writer
Jennifer Chiaverini
Author
John Wilkes Booth
Actor
Mary Todd Lincoln
Former First Lady of the United States
Sojourner Truth
Activist
Thaddeus Stevens
Former United States Representative
William Wells Brown
Novelist