2023/11/30

Todays Word

 manumise

PRONUNCIATION:
(MAN-yuh-myz) 

MEANING:
verb tr.: To free from slavery, servitude, or restraint.

2023/11/29

Todays Thought

Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" -- infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. 

-Wendell Phillips, human rights activist and attorney (29 Nov 1811-1884)

2023/11/24

Todays Thought

People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them. 

-Arundhati Roy, author (b. 24 Nov 1961)

Todays Thought

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  -Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer (20 Jul 1919-2008)