Hiram Rhodes Revels Quotes

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 27, 1827 - January 16, 1901

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I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

Jimmy Smith

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I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic ritual; it's a transubstantiation, and the stations of the cross - I mean, a crown of thorns? Getting whipped? It's punk rock.

Jim Carroll

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Anatole France

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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

Max Beckmann

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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

Donald G. Mitchell

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I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't feel seen.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Annie Besant

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I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

Willie Aames

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As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

Susan Faludi

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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Missile strikes - or any other such action - against a sovereign nation is an act of war.

Scott Garrett

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