My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

12 Years a Slave

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Slavery

Speaker

Solomon Northup

Actor

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Source

12 Years a Slave

Medium

Film

Genre

Historical drama (film) Drama (film) Historical drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Citation

12 Years a Slave. Directed by Steve McQueen, Plan B Entertainment/Regency Enterprises/ Film4 Productions/River Road Entertainment/Regency Enterprises, 2013.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

Abraham Lincoln

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Political division Slavery American Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln
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A House Divided
Medium
Speech
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1858 1850s 19th century
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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "A House Divided." 16 Jun. 1858, Springfield, IL, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "'House Divided' Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

The Third Man

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Nature of history
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Harry Lime
Actor
Orson Welles
Source
The Third Man
Medium
Film
Genre
Film noir Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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The Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed, London Films, 1949.