#avery

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. ↗

— Angela Davis

#became #been #death #death penalty #had

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#capacity #death #even #half #perform

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#bravery #dignity #ground #having #hit

Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government. ↗

— John Boehner

#american troops #assess #before #began #bravery

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#defense #else #need #power #save

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#control #country #disappears #enabled #england

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#been #country #direct #efficiency #efficient

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out. ↗

— Iris Chang

#books #changing #comfort #coming #experiments

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#freedom #rights #slavery #equality