manumise
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
verb tr.: To free from slavery, servitude, or restraint.
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)
The Supreme Court case seeking to shut down wealth taxes before they even exist
A SCOTUS case aiming to protect rich people from taxes could lead to chaos for the federal government’s finances.
People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them.
-Arundhati Roy, author (b. 24 Nov 1961)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. -Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer (20 Jul 1919-2008)