"It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics."

-- Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

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“I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.”

Source : "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.
“We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.”
“Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.”

Source : Tom Upton (2008). “Mourning Doves”, p.139, Tom Upton
“It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.”
“I really do think for the vast majority of cases, doctors didn't think they were doing anything wrong - they were doing what was being recommended at the time, and many times people were able to take these prescription opioids and not have a problem with it. But what we do know is that if we take these drugs long-term, dependency develops quickly, within as little as a week. What we all have to realize is that these pills are chemical cousins of ***** - one is an illegal opioid and one is legal, but they are relatives.”
“I wish I didn't have any flaws! I think everybody is flawed.”
“Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.”
“Anger is easier than forgiveness.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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