What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To hi...
Frederick Douglass
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politics, power, activism, abolition, slavery, radicalism, rights, human rights, dissent, suffrage
This isn’t going to work, Justine murmured.It is going to work, I told her, keeping my tone confident. We’ll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us.Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. The...
Jim Butcher
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funny, humor, harry dresden, femininity, geek, star wars, girl power, molly carpenter, dresden files, the rack
I resolutely refuse to believe that the state of Edward's health had anything to do with this, and I don't say this only because I was once later accused of attacking him 'on his deathbed.' He was ent...
Christopher Hitchens
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prejudice, cowardice, jane austen, united states, mendacity, london, iraq, vandalism, imperialism, iraq war