"If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves."

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Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.435, Ballantine Books

Michael Shaara

#Men Quotes #America Quotes #Slave Quotes

“Women's sexuality is something that is a very touchy subject for a lot of women...I had to free my body from all of the binding, all the shutting down, and all of the censorship I had already put on it. When I did that, everything in my life changed. My relationship with my husband changed. My relationship to the world changed. My relationship to my body changed. My relationship to my female friends changed in huge ways.”
“I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.”
“I love eating junk food. I'm a huge snacker, chips and candy.”
“If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.”
“For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.”
“A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.”
“Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.”

Source : Alice Fulton (2010). “The Nightingales of Troy”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company
“What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.”

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