"I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind."

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Source : "Amazon.com Review: Questions for Annette Gordon-Reed". www.amazon.com.

Annette Gordon-Reed

#Littles Quotes #Mankind Quotes #Disingenuous Quotes

“I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.”

Source : Henry Morton Stanley (1872). “How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa: Including an Account of Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone”, p.34
“I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.”
“If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.”
“I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.”
“Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.”
“I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when you write it, when you direct it, and when you edit it. So I have three shots to get it right!”
“There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.”
“Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this”

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