Slaves Quotes

One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves. Bernice King
Problems Nation Relates Has-Been Something Blamed Since Were Been Years Person America Cannot Race Mean Us Founded Founding Slaves
Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves. Calvin Peete
Man Black About Blacks Only He Feels Like Until Him Masters Forefathers How Were His Waiters Traditions Lee Elder Ask Asking Who Slaves
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. Claude Adrien Helvetius
Fools Reading Nation Prohibit Books Press Insult Limit Either Declare Certain Inhabitants Slaves
Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released. Clint Smith
Released Frederick Abolition Seemed Fantasy Slaves
I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master. Cory Booker
People Master Born Am Were Descendant Slave Slaves
Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees. Curt Siodmak
War Good Good Things Country Sit Few Every Back Our Everywhere Knees Feeds Over Hands Just Fork While Whip Us Working Conquer Things Slaves
After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears. Darryl Pinckney
Black Fears Press Evolved Kind Reconstruction Propaganda Had Arm Because Opposition Friends Being After Former Newspapers Even Slaves
When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.' Edmund Morgan
You Equality Independence Country Virginia Out Must Carter Ringing Steal He Freed Support Days Read His Diary Affirmation Wondered Send Confided Owner After Whether Declaration Them Meant Plantation Slaves Two
There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act. Edward Ball
Become Every Hundred Thousand Would Between Were Begin Quickly Families After Meaningless Act Apologizing Descendants Slaves
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. Edwidge Danticat
Army People Money Free Big Revolution Fighting Sold Chunk Out Free People Driven Had Haiti French Napoleon Forces Were Been His Very North North America America American Stopped Depleted After Little Little Money Slaves
The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster! Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Freedom Soil Our Waves Drawn Over Heads Material Cultivated Blood Very Flag Formed Republican Whip Them Slaves
Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks. Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Property Our Emancipation Shall Take Simply Feet Cease Off Human Human Beings Held Should Meant Beings Henceforth Treated Necks Slaves
Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me. Eric Metaxas
Faith Me Christianity Jews Because His Up Stood African Slaves
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man. Fanny Kemble
Man Thought Manly Humane Corporal Must Abhorrent Sort Female Said Labour Any Endure Slaves
But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish. Fanny Kemble
Class Free Enjoy Those Admit Faculties Allowed Between Perish Exercise Common Which Former Your Lowest European Even Comparison Slaves
Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious. Fanny Kemble
Own States Thousands More Throughout Thus Over Masters Does Always Prove Demonstration Handed Southern Gracious Southern States Estate Them Much Require Who Slaves
Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that. Fantastic Negrito
Culture World Respectful About Real Very Created Pop Pop Culture Descendants Keep Slaves
With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying. Frederick Law Olmsted
Me Consider Way Moral Religious Observe Condition Any Regard Cannot Either Gratifying Slaves
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites. Gary Hamel
Own Corporate Enslaved Run Some Risk Purpose Leaders Being Social Appetites Slaves
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. George Grey
People Wealth Possess Consists Abolish Totally Town Principal Concerned Trade Years Chief Being Little Many Therefore Slave Chance Number Slaves
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. George Reisman
Property Socialism Loss Therefore Slaves
Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system. Greg Grandin
Health History Dark Black Think Thomas Thomas Jefferson Harriet System Black Americans Emerged Colonial Fact Smallpox Performed Documents His Times American In Fact Experimentation Experiments Apartheid Public Much Public Health Jefferson Washington Now Medical Present Slave Slaves
The severe household has no fierce slaves, while it is the affectionate mother who has the prodigal son. Han Fei
Son Mother Severe Household Affectionate While Fierce Prodigal Who Slaves
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary. Henry Charles Carey
Great Virginia States Those Stationary Remained Almost Quite Then Exports Population Slaves
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president. Henry Louis Gates
Man Together Black Myth First Own Added President Consider Would He Freeing Overcame Became Lincoln His Lot Up Being Creating Prejudices Union Many Keeping Slaves
In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth. Ilan Stavans
Today Library Black Backgrounds Tell Immigrants Featured Like Edited Becoming Anthology America American Different Stories Different Backgrounds Speakers Roth Henry Slaves
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