#avery

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #bravery #coming #degrees #dinner

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. ↗

— Anais Nin

#ago #father #i #long #long time

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. ↗

— George S. Patton

#brave #brave man #bravery #definition #fear

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. ↗

— Colin Powell

#about #argued #congress #court #deal

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#conventions #currency #declaration #every #giving

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#constitutionally #fail #fugitive #hereafter #intend

A great fortune is a great slavery. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#great #slavery

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. ↗

— Nina Simone

#been #never #slavery #thinking #way

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ↗

— James Stephens

#conquer #curiosity #even #fear #more

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#easily #emancipation #every #lie #new