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“What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.”

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Sam Manekshaw

Sam Manekshaw was an Indian military leader born on April 3, 1914, and passed away on June 27, 2008. He played a crucial role in the Indian Independence War and the Indo-Pakistani Wars, and is regarded as an outstanding figure in the modern history of the Indian military. more

“Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.”

May Doe Ends Young Humanity Behinds Gone Periods Disease Adults Constitution Mark Slavery Toxic Complaints Infancy Poisoning Infantile Measles

Author:Olive Schreiner

“Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.”

Inspirational Slavery Slave Be A Slave Human Trafficking Trafficking

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.”

World Humans Facts Depends Civilization Machines Slavery Slave Insecure Demoralizing

Author:Oscar Wilde

“The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”

Men Love Justice Principles Eternal Slavery Slave Selfishness Shock Opposition Extensions His Love Collision Be A Slave Antagonism

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.”

Want Whole Christian Suffering Enjoy Creatures Fellows Slavery Neighbor Plenty Code Ease Meals Coats

Author:James F. Cooper

“Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.”

Men Mind Home Left Pleasure Gold Increase England Paid Slavery Stranger Rage Treasure Coast Forlorn

Book:The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

Source: The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

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