#avery

Bravery never goes out of fashion. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#fashion #goes #never #out

Stardom can be a gilded slavery. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#slavery #stardom

She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#fish #humor #humor

Well I won't back down No I won't back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won't back down ↗

— Tom Petty

#bravery

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#inquisition #like #secrets #slavery #those

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#because #bottom #bravery #courage #cowardice

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— William Labov

#african #african american #american #appears #century

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner. ↗

— Spike Lee

#dancer #days #dinner #good #job

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#history #human #human history #page #prolonged

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. ↗

— Doug Wilder

#history #involvement #joke #nation #nothing