"No more slave States and no more slave territory."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Resolutions Adopted at the Free-Soil National Convention), 1922.

Salmon P. Chase

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“Culture shouldn't be a pacifying thing. It shouldn't be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways, is quite disruptive - makes you think and question things, and actually sparks debate.”

Source : Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.
“By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do not fall into books and reading on their own. We renege on our responsibility to teach students how to become self-actualized readers. We are selling our students short by believing that reading is a talent and that lifelong reading behaviors cannot be taught.”

Source : Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.21, John Wiley & Sons
“The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.”
“I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.”
“Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.”
“If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.”
“Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.”
“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”

Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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