"Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations."

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Source : Bob Blaisdell, Stephen A. Douglas (2012). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.80, Courier Corporation

Stephen A. Douglas

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“The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.”

Source : João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA
“Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.”
“Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.”
“I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.”

Source : "‘It’s Time’ for Imagine Dragons: An Interview With Front Man Dan". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.
“I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.”
“For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.”

Source : David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.179, Vintage
“We preach and practice brotherhood â€” not only of man but of all living beings â€” not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice â€” that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.”
“Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them.”

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