Top 20 Former Slaves Quotes
#1. I'm a bloodydamn Helldiver with an army of giant, mildly psychotic women behind me and a fleet of state-of-the-art warships crewed by pissed-off pirates, engineers, techs, and former slaves.
Pierce Brown
#2. Our struggle has inspired oppressed people the world over, because if former slaves can make the most powerful nation face itself, there's a chance for everyone else. In a twist, our rage becomes hope for others.
Mychal Denzel Smith
#3. It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
Nadine Gordimer
#4. Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history of our nation would not be complete without the story of former slaves that helped develop the unique character of the West.
William Silverman
#5. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#6. Lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring ...
Sue Hubbell
#7. With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
Candice Millard
#8. My God, thank you for bringing her. It's like a trip into the past. Hannah looks just like her. My sweet little Terri." And Vanni was reminded, not for the first time, that the loss of a child is probably the most brutal loss of all, no matter that child's age. *
Robyn Carr
#9. Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
Thomas Clarkson
#11. Napoleon, true to his word, began the work of preparing Haiti for the transfer of former American slaves, about a third the number of them as there had been prior to the uprisings and reprisals.
Billy Roper
#12. A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
Laurie Cabot
#13. 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
#14. I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.
Arthur M. Jolly
#15. Once you taste the second income in the household and it changes your lifestyle, you get used to it.
Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud
#16. a real sport." The waiter popped the cork and
Judy Blume
#17. I hate fate. I don't believe in her. Unfortunately, I think the bitch believes in me.
Karen Marie Moning
#18. What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
#19. Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.
John Calvin
#20. Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is leaning on mine.
David Mitchell
