Quotes About Freeing Slaves

#1. Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

Henry Louis Gates

#2. I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where the many aspects of human potential, good and/or bad, are most readily magnified.

Chris Abani

#3. So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend.

Cory Doctorow

#4. If you do not have inner peace, you may not be able to find it anywhere.

Debasish Mridha

#5. If you use big words, no one will know you aren't doing jack squat.

Stephen Colbert

#6. God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#7. We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#8. And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts for them to enjoy... But in the sky they are truly what a bird is meant to be. So it is with the human heart.

Aleksandra Layland

#9. We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Robert Charles Wilson

#10. How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told with honesty and heart, held me in my seat to the very end. I have discovered a new favorite writer in Christine MacLean.

Han Nolan

#11. Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

Ingmar Bergman