We take responsibility for being firearm owners. We take responsibility for whose hands those guns get into.
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.
Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.
And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.
I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.
I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.
I would like to thank all of the owners, John Richards specifically, I think he is the main man who kept me on Prince Of Penzance, maybe a few of them who wanted to take me off.
California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
So often animals come into shelters where their owners have passed away. And they've been perfect pets for most of their lives. So there's an adult animal sitting in a cage that's completely trained, sleeps through the night, is past that puppy stage.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!
All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.
This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.
Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.
We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.
I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.
At West Ham I had a fantastic relationship with the board but I was really upset with them when they sold the club without telling me. I then had new owners I didn't get on particularly well with.
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
I don't have any interest in cashing out or leaving the business or doing something else. I just love Subway, and I want to keep focusing on the company for the benefit of all our franchise owners. So I'm kind of like married to the job.
I would never do anything to damage United, whoever the owners might be, and I am sure that no United fan would want me to do that.
In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.
Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.
Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.
In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.
The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable.
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk.
When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Gun owners are not buying firearms because they anticipate a confrontation with the government. Rather, we anticipate confrontations where the government isn't there - or simply doesn't show up in time.
I am better when I have control. I am not a power freak. But my point is that I need to feel that I can manage the team and have a direct, clear line through to the owners. Once that becomes hazy, for me, there is a problem.
Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.
Playing only when you have a strong hand, also known as being a slave to the cards, is simply not the way to win tournaments.
It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow.
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.
My advice to owners of fashion brands is that you have to give digital a seat at the board table. A lot of brands treat digital strategy as something on the side.
To see the Law by Christ fulfilled,
And hear His pardoning voice
Changes a slave into a child,
And duty into choice.
I've enjoyed being a baseball owner more because I've enjoyed owners being allowed to participate.
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