"American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a……" — James Madison
"American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil."
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461 Quotes by James Madison
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism,…
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is…
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish…
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be…
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
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The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in…
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal…
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the…
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or…
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most…
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When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans…
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Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a…
— Unknown Author
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By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time…
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for…
— Thomas Sowell
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Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.…
— Nelson Mandela
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