Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

Flann OBrien
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  1. I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights. - Jean Sasson

  2. I can hear the roar of women's silence - Thomas Sankara

  3. People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing. - Louis LAmour

  4. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges. - Booker T. Washington

  5. Wherever there is a human being I see God-given rights inherent in that being whatever may be the sex or complexion. - William Lloyd Garrison

More Quotes By Flann OBrien
  1. A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.

  2. You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?"" That is about the size of it, " said the Sergeant.I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears...

  3. Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but...

  4. Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each...

  5. Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.

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