"The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail."

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John C. Calhoun

#War Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.”
“Perhaps the biggest obstacle to loving yourself and living your Spirit is the belief that you can only do so when all your problems are solved, all your worries are alleviated, and all your concerns and fears have disappeared. The truth is, this will never happen. We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and remember our Divine nature”
“Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will make racism disappear. They have a deep emotional investment in the myth of sameness even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think.”
“I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.”
“I know what itâ€™s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what itâ€™s like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. Weâ€™ve spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So donâ€™t try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras”
“I should be the reigning champion. I punch a guy 300 times, he punches me a couple and they call him the champion? In what parallel universe does that make you the winner? I am the champion. Iâ€™ve been the champion. Andersonâ€™s ribs have the exact same problem that his hands and his feet have, theyâ€™re attached to a cowardly person.”
“Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!”
“Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.”

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