#ship

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#censorship #justice #lynching

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#feel #future #own #ownership #people

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#agents #been #between #business #commercial

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

Old age is a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#old #old age #shipwreck

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#always #effects #great #great leaders #leaders

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#animal #cat #difficult #does #friendship

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ↗

— David Storey

#another #essence #friendship #lapses #little

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#citizenship #his #informed #make #obliges

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#cannot #learned #only #really #taught