". . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!"

-- Robert Purvis

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #Sight Quotes

“I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.”
“[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.”
“If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.”
“Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.”
“One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.”
“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.”

Source : Source: www.neh.gov

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