Quotes About Black Codes

#1. After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.

Niger Innis

#2. Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

Ernestine Rose

#3. We have time to accomplish the task.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth.

Nikki Rowe

#5. Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Bernard Beckett

#6. I belong to the Kingdom of God, that's my Country! I'm from Space City, that's my City! I'm from the City that hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God!

David Berg

#7. Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.

Charles R. Swindoll

#8. I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

Al Michaels

#9. If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

Bodhidharma

#10. In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

Ellen Glasgow

#11. In a broader sense, much of this story about the expansion of slavery and how it shaped the lives of black folks and the wider world is driven by the white men who tried to impose their codes on everything around them.

Edward E. Baptist

#12. What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam.

Richard M. Nixon

#13. I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.

Chris Pratt

#14. To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

Edward Gibbon

#15. I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.

Stephen Fry

#16. One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

Herman Melville