"Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated."

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Source : "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

Ibn Khaldun

#Animal Quotes #Dumb Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.”
“See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.”
“I feel like it's almost my purpose to speak up about my experience so it could help somebody else.”
“I hope you have enjoyed watching as much as I have enjoyed taking part.”
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Source : "My wish: Protect our oceans". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2009.
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“God's children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit.”
“Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick to avoid spiritual surgery. We can forget because we have been healed. But even if it is easier to forget after we forgive, we should not make forgetting a test of our forgiving. The test of forgiving lies with healing the lingering pain of the past, not with forgetting the past has ever happened.”

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