"When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!"

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Source : Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.79, Enhanced Media Publishing

Elizabeth Keckley

#Air Quotes #Blood Quotes #Want Quotes

“The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.”

Source : 'Manchester Guardian' 5 May 1921
“Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.”
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
“Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.”
“Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.”

Source : "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.
“If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.”
“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.”

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