Leslie Odom Jr. Quotes
There are certainly people who have committed horrific, evil acts in the history of humanity. I don't think Aaron Burr's one of them.
Gross, Terry. "'I Wanted To Be A Part Of It': 'Hamilton' Star Leslie Odom Jr. On Aaron Burr." Fresh Air, NPR, 15 Mar. 2016.
The “compromise” admitted Misouri to the Union with the right to have slavery and Maine with the right to abolish slavery. The slave states had taken the position that states really had no right to abolish slavery at all, but they compromised on Maine. Many in the non slave states insisted on the aboloution of slavery everywhere, but compromised on Missouri. Luisa Adams, an implacable opponent of slavery on moral and religious grounds, condemned the compromise as politically expedient but morally bankrupt. She saw attempted compromise on the slavery issue as leading to disaster—current and future murder and degradation of human beings and postponing the issue until it would be out of hand.
Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared, that is, by the established power structures. Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
The problem of the person who economically profits from the crimes of others has been with America for many years as this quotation shows. I later example was when in 2011, almost all of the large banks hired people as Vice Presidents and those people in turn falsified information and legal documents in mortgage foreclosures. The higher up bank executives who profited from this illegal activity were never prosecuted by the Obama administration. Similarly, the consumer frauds of securities sales representatives, made fortunes for the stock broker partners who almost always were never criminally prosecuted even though almost all their sales personnel were telling prospective customers the same fraudulent information.
Leslie Odom Jr. is an American actor and singer. He made his acting debut on Broadway in 1998 and first gained recognition for his portrayal of Aaron Burr in the musical Hamilton, which earned him a Grammy Award and a Tony Award in 2016.
