Horrors Of Slavery Quotes

#1. It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery, without having become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent.

Frederick Douglass

#2. Indeed, who has a greater right to public respect than the man of color fighting for freedom after having experienced all the horrors of slavery? To equal the most celebrated warriors he need only keep in mind all the evils he has suffered.

Tom Reiss

#3. Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

Khalil Gibran

#4. People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#5. The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Albert Einstein

#6. In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.

Fannie Barrier Williams

#7. I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

Evan Dando

#8. I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

Evelyn Ashford

#9. Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Richard Rogers

#10. I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill

Kara Walker

#11. When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

Sun Tzu

#12. He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.

Lauren Groff

#14. Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Sarah Caldwell

#15. Underestimation of nonconventional units or a guerrilla enemy by regular forces is a cardinal military sin.

Howard R. Simpson

#16. Please?" he says.
I shake my head, even though my body is starting to trade sides and beg my mind to cave to him.
"I'm really good at it, Lily," he says with a grin. "You'll barely even have to do any work.

Colleen Hoover

#17. In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

Mason Cooley

#18. Maybe it's the age difference, but when my wife told me she was turned on by Fifty Shades of Grey, I thought she was talking about my hair color!

J. Thomas Steele

#19. I could practically hear the unspoken 'good girl' accompanied by a pat and scratch behind my ears like I was his obedient pet.

Melissa Aragon

#20. I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there.

Julie Andrews