"If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages."

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Source : Richard M. Reinsch, II, Orestes Augustus Brownson (2016). “Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology”, p.170, CUA Press

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“We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.”

Source : "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.
“When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.”
“I don't think any other city actually has anyone who has actually documented the way they have lived or documented the city themselves. If you want to look at New York in the last half of the 20th century, into the 21st, you would look at Bill Cunningham's archives.”
“Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.”

Source : "David S. Goyer talks Dark Knight, Superman and Call of Duty: Black Ops" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2013.
“It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.”
“But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.”
“Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.”
“The empty tomb stands, a veritable rock, as an essential element in the evidence for the resurrection. To suggest that it was not in fact empty at all, as some have done, seems to me ridiculous.”

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