"Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere."

-- Charles Rangel

#Past Quotes #Europe Quotes #Hemisphere Quotes

“After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.”
“I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.”
“Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.”
“POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.”
“Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.”

Source : Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”
“At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.”
“I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.”
“And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.”

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