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I ask no favors for my sex... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.


Sarah Moore Grimke

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that I might love you through all my days,
and that ...
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RAYMOND OBENG As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.
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BRYAN BROWN I knew they were not very fast off their feet and that they are very foul-prone - they put you on th...
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ANDREA FULLER All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.
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KURT HARCLERODE They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Take golf out of the equation, and ask yourself, 'Will I still be happy there?'
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MARIANNE MOORE Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage
MARIANNE MOORE Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its or...
ALAN MOORE Eve: All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? ALAN MOORE Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas o...
ALAN MOORE Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure ...
ALAN MOORE You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Ha...
ALAN MOORE The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is t...
ALAN MOORE There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
ALAN MOORE Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
ALAN MOORE But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do...
ALAN MOORE Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they ...
ALAN MOORE It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, ...
ALAN MOORE Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what...
ALAN MOORE The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made...
ALAN MOORE They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.
ALAN MOORE Love your rage, not your cage.
ALAN MOORE God is in the rain.
ALAN MOORE I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care, I am me....
ALAN MOORE Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their powe...
ALAN MOORE Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that w...
ALAN MOORE I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragi...
ALAN MOORE Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
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