"The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage?"

-- Frederick Douglass

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“Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.”
“The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army”
“I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.”

Source : Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.270, Macmillan
“The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.”

Source : Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.23, Random House
“If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.”
“Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.”
“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
“The more natural, the better.”

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