Quotes About Runaway Slaves

#1. We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.

Timothy B. Tyson

#2. Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken by those who helped runaway slaves in the American South, to mention only one possible parallel.

Peter Singer

#3. If you do something bad to me, and I say "okay, let's move on," it does not mean I forgive you.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#4. You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.

Rodney Carrington

#5. My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me.

Ludacris

#6. Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air ...

Amy Johnson

#7. Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Peter Shaffer

#8. You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around.

Simon Cowell

#9. It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Voltaire

#10. Everything I did was pure love. Pure love. And if you live that way, you've had a great life. - 'Ray Bradbury: the last interview and other conversations' by Sam Weller (p.92)

Ray Bradbury

#11. Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

John Ziman

#12. Worthless. Stupid. These are the words I grew up hearing. They're the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, until the only thing left of me is worthless stupid worthless stupid worthless stupid freak. And then there's nothing to do but run harder and fill myself with other words ...

Jennifer Niven

#13. The best way to keep from stumbling over the past was to move forward,

Susan Wiggs