Bill Clinton Quotes
The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.
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.
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was previously Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and the Arkansas Attorney General from 1977 to 1979. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III – he changed to his stepfather's name at age 15.
