Called Intolerable Acts

Famous quotes containing the words called, intolerable and/or acts:

    “When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.”
    —Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)

    “To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)

    “Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.”
    —Jeanne Moreau (b. 1928)