Abolitionism Civil War Quotes

#1. You've got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You're only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.

James Rozoff

#2. Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who ... even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.

Susan Jacoby

#3. Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.
[Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]

George Herbert

#4. The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things. At least here, in my house, I have control over my memories.

Lisa Jewell

#5. The heart can function but it never entirely heals.

Janet Gurtler

#6. But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Maynard James Keenan

#7. Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect
not realizing that they have signalled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.

Nathaniel Branden

#8. The measure of a man's power is the depth of his mercy.

Christopher Moore

#9. My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

Joan Collins

#10. I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

Jesse Eisenberg

#11. Not to be able to find one's 'own' faults; this is called the world.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity is a function of inadequate knowledge and/or skills.

Marsha M. Linehan

#13. With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People ... ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.

Dick Cheney

#14. Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

Ben E. King

#15. Be yourself, you will not get a second chance to.
- Daniel, Age 12, Munich, Germany, October 14

R.J. Palacio