Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Source: Statement to an Indiana Regiment passing through Washington (17 March 1865); The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Volume VIII
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
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Virginia Satir (1916–1988) American psychologist
Brief biography http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/satir2.html at Webster University
Roberto Mangabeira Unger book The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound
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“I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.”
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
Equality (1943)
Context: I don't deserve a share in governing a hen-roost, much less a nation. Nor do most people — all the people who believe advertisements, and think in catchwords and spread rumors. The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
in a letter to Frédéric Bazille from Etretat, December 1868; as cited in: Mary Tompkins Lewis (2007) Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. p. 83
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Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Four, p. 83
“I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.”
Jeanne Calment (1875–1934) French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history
Source: Craig R. Whitney, " In France, A Citizen Turns 120 http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/22/world/in-france-a-citizen-turns-120.html," The New York Times February 22, 1995.
“Whenever the mind of a person is rectified, he becomes strong and powerful in appearance.”
Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 208
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