Melinda Gates Quotes
This quotation illustrates a huge difference between Roman Slavery (as well as slavery in many other societies) on the one hand and American Slavery which was much more pernicious. In Rome, slave and master status was a function of circumstances—events and luck. The slave was inherently no less able than the master. Indeed, if a battle might have gone the other way, their roles could be reversed. There was huge inequality of rights and privileges, between slaves and masters, but inherently they were both humans. Often slaves as a result of life before capture were very educated—far more so than their masters. Some were leaders, some poets. In American Slavery there was an overlay of inherent inferiority which most Southerners believed, and worst of all, the perpetuation of that notion tended to be believed by most American slaves. The American slave never had the human dignity that a Roman slave did.
He was responding to Mississippi Congressman William Colmer-- {637395}. Southern racists frequently accused other members of Congress of being intimidated by civil rights leaders rather than voting for civil rights legislation out of conviction. Many of them, like Colmer, were so insular that revanchist that they did not realize that other whites could really believe that segregation was not a necessary and good thing.
Melinda Ann Gates is an American philanthropist and a former general manager at Microsoft, the world's largest computer software company. In 2000, she and her husband Bill Gates co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization as of 2015. Through the foundation, she led an early 21st century vaccination campaign which significantly contributed to the eradication of the wild poliovirus in Africa. Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes.
