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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #rope




The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.


Henry Louis Gates


#agents #been #between #business #commercial

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.


Henry Louis Gates


#always #brutality #european #haunted #heard

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.


Henry Louis Gates


#believe #built #came #cities #denied

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.


Charles de Gaulle


#atom bomb #bomb #consider #could #country

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.


Robert Lanza


#assign #beyond #continuing #entities #extensions

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.


Christopher Lasch


#left #mix #politics #proper #religion

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.


Nicholas Lea


#away #city #come #eight #family

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.


Louis Leakey


#could #far #nursing #often #proper

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.


Louis Leakey


#early #europe #had #hominid #i

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.


Doris Lessing


#delighted #europe #every #i #lot