Powers Include Flight

Famous quotes containing the words powers, include and/or flight:

    “Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.”
    —Han Suyin (b. 1917)

    “I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”
    —Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)