"Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart."

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Source : Theodore Dwight Weld (2014). “American Slavery As It Was - The Background Of Twelve Years A Slave”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

Theodore Dwight Weld

#Heart Quotes #Men Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong.”

Source : Jillian Lauren (2011). “Pretty: A Novel”, p.101, Penguin
“It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!”
“I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers.”
“But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.”
“The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps”
“The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, â€œI lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”
“[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.”
“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

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