Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 9, 1802 - November 7, 1837

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FeetHumanPropertyTakeSlavesOff

I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.

Jodi Kantor

MarriageExperienceTogetherThink

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

Jeff Daniels

StoryYouGoNewKindAct

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

Stephen Sondheim

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I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

Stella McCartney

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No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

Shirley Manson

GirlWomanBootsBigMTVShirley

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

Mireille Mathieu

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We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

Mitch Daniels

FreedomPurposeFreeBelieveWrong

I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.

Douglas Kirkland

ChangeLookWantWillWayPlastic

I thought, 'If I make 35, it'll be okay,' and then at 40, I got scared, and now that I'm 81, I'm scared to death.

Christopher Plummer

DeathThoughtNowOkayScaredGot

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

Brad Pitt

LifeFatherOpportunityBetterWant

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

FaithMeBelieveDoubtMoreHonest

If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?

Richard Engel

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