To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable clas...s of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passag...e. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men,... And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of a...ll kinds of filth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Class, race, sexuality, gender--and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other--need to be excavated from ...the inside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »