Top 18 Thirteenth Amendment Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.
Joe Slovo
#5. If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.
Bryan Cranston
#6. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Thomas Hardy
#7. It is morally acceptable in life for one to make mistakes; it only enables you to go back to your drawing board and review your steps".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#8. There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
Peter Greenaway
#9. People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?
George Carlin
#10. Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
Baruch Spinoza
#11. I always liked Mitt Romney. He looks like the salesman who follows you around at Brooks Brothers.
David Letterman
#12. Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.
Zig Ziglar
#13. The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.
Jonathan Grayer
#14. There are two things that make
the conscious world move,
decision and desire.
Toby Barlow
#15. The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone
Portent or promise
and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.
Herman Melville
#16. Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.
James Ellroy
#18. paradises are usually places where you get killed. The
Rick Riordan
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