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«This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found where as in caste system, some persons are forced to carry on the prescribed callings which are not their choice.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
carry on, caste, castes, caste system, legal, legal system, obtains, prescribed, prescribes
«The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Limits
| Keywords:
endurance, limits, oppose, prescribed, prescribes, tyrants
«Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
amount, blows, continue, endurance, exact, imposed, injustice, limits, oppress, prescribed, prescribes, resisted, submit, submitting, tyrants
«Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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all but, Book of, hides, page, prescribed, prescribes, the book
«(Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Freedom,
Liberty
| Keywords:
enterprises, faction, factions, feeble, member, prescribed, prescribes, tranquil, withstand
«When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assured, bum, bummed, bums, described, eight, fever, fifty-eight, incurable, incurables, in other words, itch, itched, itches, itching, mature, maturity, middle age, prescribed, prescribes, remedy, senility, someplace, The Job, The Urge, urge, worked
«Have you not seen those to whom it was said: Withhold your hands, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; but when fighting is prescribed for them, lo! a party of them fear men as they ought to have feared Allah, or (even) with a greater fear, and»
«My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Alcohol,
Drinking,
Life,
Rules,
Smoking
| Keywords:
alcohol, cigars, intervals, meals, prescribed, prescribes, rite, rule of, smoking, The Rite
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