Charles Sumner Quotes

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Charles Sumner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1811 - March 11, 1874

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I've always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well.

Jerry Hall

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Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

Jennifer Lopez

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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

John le Carre

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I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

Jeb Bush

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It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

John Sununu

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The job of automobile manufacturers is to passionately build something that others love to own.

Anand Mahindra

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I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

Stephen Rea

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For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling and applied for a position of an assistant director.

Sidharth Malhotra

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In the 1880s, women were decades away from earning the right to vote. Few owned property - if they were even permitted to do so. In addition to childcare obligations, many toiled in work that was either underpaid or not paid at all. Essentially, the gears of progress for women were moving slowly in just about every arena of life.

Mary Pilon

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I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

Miroslav Vitous

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We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!

Christa McAuliffe

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I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.

Christine Woods

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