Quotes About The Thirteenth Amendment

#1. Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest.

Dawn Johnsen

#2. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime. In

Michelle Alexander

#3. In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#4. My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies.

Enrique Iglesias

#5. The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived.

Shoghi Effendi

#6. I'm not one of those people who's saying "I'm going to set up a production company", because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.

Nicholas Hoult

#7. You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

Epictetus

#8. Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there's really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn't come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

Maxine Greene

#9. I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

Ricky Jay

#10. I'm ALL about the Alternative.

Solange Nicole

#11. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

#12. I read Hesse's Steppenwolf thrice. The first time I was enchanted, the second time disappointed, the third time appalled.

Marcel Reich-Ranicki