"Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion."

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Source : Hinton Rowan Helper (1860). “The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it”, p.436

Hinton Rowan Helper

#Freedom Of Speech Quotes #Slavery Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“We see ourselves as filmmakers and as storytellers. We want to make films that move people emotionally. The most effective thing that cinema can do is get into people's hearts and have them see a new perspective on life - step inside someone else's shoes and mind for 90 minutes and experience the world in that way.”

Source : Source: www.rogerebert.com
“Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.”
“They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.”
“We who hold his (Wolfe Tone) principles believe that any movement which would successfully grapple with the problem of national freedom must draw its inspiration not from the mouldering records of the past, but from the glowing hopes of the living present, the vast possibilities of the mighty future.”
“I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.”
“Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.”

Source : Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.42, Spectra
“Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.”

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