"No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States Â of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders"

-- Ida B. Wells

#America Quotes #Burning Quotes #Shooting Quotes

“I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.”
“When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!”

Source : Tertullian (1869). “The Writings of Quintus Sept. Flor. Tertullianus”, p.37
“Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.”
“In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.”
“Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.”

Source : "Tanzania's New President Sworn in". news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 2005.
“The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.”
“'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.”
“An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.”

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