"The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself."

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Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

Laurent Dubois

#Opportunity Quotes #Rights Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Never is a long word.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.138, A&C Black
“Tom Brady was suspended 4 games for hiding evidence. Hillary should have to sit out first 4 primaries.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 29, 2015
“Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or do we just want guys around us whom we can share our curlers with?”
“A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.”

Source : "Simon Baker Talks MARGIN CALL, Occupy Wall Street, THE MENTALIST, and His Thoughts on DOCTOR STRANGE". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.
“Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.”
“If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.”
“The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mike Birbiglia from Oct 05, 2012
“The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.”

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