James Forten Quotes

#1. Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

James Forten

#2. We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Moliere

#3. It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

James Forten

#4. Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe ... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.

James Forten

#5. Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species? Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food ... And should we not then enjoy the same liberty ... ?

James Forten

#6. What the mediocrity principle tells us is that our state is not the product of intent, that the universe lacks both malice and benevolence, but that everything does follow rules - and that grasping those rules should be the goal of science.

John Brockman

#7. The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Cyril Connolly

#8. Stop thinking about what you've lost, and think about what you have left.

Kristin Hannah

#9. People fall in love in mysterious ways. Maybe it's all part of a plan ...

Ed Sheeran

#10. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

Vladimir Nabokov