David Brion Davis quotes

“We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.”
-- David Brion Davis

Source : David Brion Davis (2008). “Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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“War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.”

“People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that,”

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”

“What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ***** back?”

“If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!”

“It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.”

“I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.”

“Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.”

“I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.”

Source : "Living legend: Ba Jin". www.newsgd.com. November 26, 2003.

“One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.”

Source : "In 'Sliver Of Sky,' Barry Lopez Confronts Childhood Sexual Abuse". 'Fresh Air' with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 10, 2013.