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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of the slaveholders find the strongest protection. Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#frederick-douglass #religion #slavery #life

Our evening-long tango of stares had my head spinning. ↗

— Jennifer Comeaux

#young-adult-romance #life

Be who you are,nobody likes to be copied! ↗

— Morgan Musseau

#yourself #life

The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#bartolome-de-medina #contemplation #happiness #st-thomas #life

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. ↗

— Smiley Blanton

#life #love #life

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs. ↗

— Herbert M. Shelton

#natural-hygiene #surgery #life

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'. ↗

— Mary Roach

#life

In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay. ↗

— Christos Tsiolkas

#life

Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#jobs #money #sacrifices #life

Life can be awkward at times. It is part of the growing process. ↗

— Jim Fargiano

#life #self #spiritual-growth #life