Dred Quotes

#1. What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.

Roger B. Taney

#2. Arthur said, "Let's be cool and not get busted. I advise rest and relaxation, and definitely a bath. You guys smell like booze and cheap whores."
Dred sniffed. "He's right. We do. Woof.

Laird Barron

#3. For black Americans, we know that gun control ... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.

Niger Innis

#4. All the figures who upheld and defended American slavery - Senators John C. Calhoun and Stephen Douglas, President James Buchanan, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, architect of the Dred Scott decision, and the main leaders of the Confederacy - were Democrats.

Dinesh D'Souza

#5. Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. To the game I'm true like the sun first rose
I'm real like my man Michael Jackson's first nose

Dred Scott

#8. When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#9. Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.

John Locke

#10. The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom.

Dred Scott

#11. I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

John Lasseter

#12. A man is a man, until that man finds a plan, a plan that makes that man, a new man

Dred Scott

#13. Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

Sri Chinmoy

#14. I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

Billy Joel

#15. The cops drive by to do some more good deeds
A young black male spits a sunflower seed
in the air.

Dred Scott