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Although formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue, the design and sculpting process was done without their input or participation, and it shows, the statue fails to depict how enslaved African Americans pressed for their own emancipation. At the time, they had only recently been liberated from slavery and were grateful for any recognition of their freedom. However, in his keynote address at the unveiling of the statue, Frederick Douglass pointedly did not praise the statue, and, indeed, in private remarks, went as far as to say, it ‘showed the Negro on his knee when a more manly attitude would have been indicative of freedom.’. – Eleanor Holmes Norton	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Stop putting people in boxes of Manly or Lady Like. Let people be themselves. – Kiryu Kazuma	added by Moro-Gajima 2 years ago
Right now, he’s in hiding, he should go ahead and man up.He shot my son in the back of the head.That’s not exactly manly behavior.He should man up now, turn himself in, so nobody else gets injured. – Paul Castro	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They may look at Ron DeSantis and think, 'Oh he couldbe somewhat acceptable' but the minute that Ron DeSantis -- Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina -- and Trump sees it on Fox and loses his s--- and says 'Weak loser Ron DeSantis! He should be hated! He's not a tough manly man like me!' itwill absolutely destroy the guy's career. – Rick Wilson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's a really aggressive posture to both men. Putin respects fighters and he respects aggression and he doesn't respect sort of calm and deliberation, he wants a manly adversary. He wants somebody he can understand. – Masha Gessen	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our gun culture is very heavily masculine, it is seen as manly to be identified with guns. – Deniese Kennedy-Kollar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The hope is... that men and boys might start to reconsider the way they want to be manly, what kind of men they want to be, when you start asking questions challenging the status quo for what it means to be a man, it forces men ... to reconsider all these very destructive symptoms of patriarchy. – Carlos Andres Gomez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. – William Wycherley	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. – Mary Baker Eddy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example, of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness. – James Madison	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. – Longfellow	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself, while we say, destiny will ensure it. Laying aside destiny, show manly fortitude by thy own strength: if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail of success, what crime is there in failing? – The Hitopadesa	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth. – Dorothy Sayers	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly. – Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. – W. E. B. Du Bois	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. – Thucydides	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Although formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue, the design and sculpting process was done without their input or participation, and it shows, the statue fails to depict how enslaved African Americans pressed for their own emancipation. At the time, they had only recently been liberated from slavery and were grateful for any recognition of their freedom. However, in his keynote address at the unveiling of the statue, Frederick Douglass pointedly did not praise the statue, and, indeed, in private remarks, went as far as to say, it ‘showed the Negro on his knee when a more manly attitude would have been indicative of freedom.’.

– Eleanor Holmes Norton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Stop putting people in boxes of Manly or Lady Like. Let people be themselves.

– Kiryu Kazuma

added by Moro-Gajima
2 years ago

Right now, he’s in hiding, he should go ahead and man up.He shot my son in the back of the head.That’s not exactly manly behavior.He should man up now, turn himself in, so nobody else gets injured.

– Paul Castro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They may look at Ron DeSantis and think, 'Oh he couldbe somewhat acceptable' but the minute that Ron DeSantis -- Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina -- and Trump sees it on Fox and loses his s--- and says 'Weak loser Ron DeSantis! He should be hated! He's not a tough manly man like me!' itwill absolutely destroy the guy's career.

– Rick Wilson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a really aggressive posture to both men. Putin respects fighters and he respects aggression and he doesn't respect sort of calm and deliberation, he wants a manly adversary. He wants somebody he can understand.

– Masha Gessen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our gun culture is very heavily masculine, it is seen as manly to be identified with guns.

– Deniese Kennedy-Kollar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The hope is... that men and boys might start to reconsider the way they want to be manly, what kind of men they want to be, when you start asking questions challenging the status quo for what it means to be a man, it forces men ... to reconsider all these very destructive symptoms of patriarchy.

– Carlos Andres Gomez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

– William Wycherley

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

– Benjamin Disraeli

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

– Mary Baker Eddy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example, of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness.

– James Madison

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

– Juvenal

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.

– Longfellow

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself, while we say, destiny will ensure it. Laying aside destiny, show manly fortitude by thy own strength: if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail of success, what crime is there in failing?

– The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

– Dorothy Sayers

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

– Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly.

– Seneca

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

– W. E. B. Du Bois

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

– Thucydides

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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