"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."

-- Frederick Douglass

#Men Quotes #Black History Quotes #Slave Quotes

“The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.”
“I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.”
“The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus.”
“We have a much bigger objective. We've got to look at the long run here. This is an example - the situation between the United Nations and Iraq - where the United Nations is deliberately intruding into the sovereignty of a sovereign nation.... Now this is a marvelous precedent (to be used in) all countries of the world....”
“I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.”
“I feel like the places where I like to live, or study, or visit are places where people's differences are celebrated rather than just tolerated.”
“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”
“Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.”

Source : James Buchanan, James Buchanan Henry (1909). “The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence”

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