“Only a tiny handful of slaves responded to the Confederate proposal. They viewed it as an act of desperation and were skeptical of the sincerity of promises of emancipation. The reaction of the slaves generally was 'Why would we fight for the Confederacy; it's not our country? They were very well informed through the grapevine.”
Bruce Levine
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.”
Willem de Kooning
“What you've seen from Merck is really nothing more than an act of desperation. When you have no science, you attack the victim.”
Christopher Seeger
“Obviously when a national labor leader like Richard Trumka is sent to Kentucky, that indicates an act of desperation that they recognize the popularity of giving employees a choice.”
Jodi Whitaker
“The Toll bid is an act of desperation,”
Chris Corrigan
“These are the desperate acts of a desperate president who is going to try and drag this country through a cultural war to jump-start a failing campaign,”
Cheryl Jacques
