Quotes About Freedmen

#1. The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.

Samuel Eliot Morison

#2. Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

Seneca The Younger

#3. No African has ever voluntarily emigrated to the shores of the New World; whence it must be inferred, that all the blacks who are now to be found in that hemisphere are either slaves or freedmen.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#5. I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Ronnie Milsap

#6. To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.

Florence King

#7. I'm always pleased when people respond to the work.

Edward James Olmos

#8. For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.

Richard Hovey

#9. Forever, just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math, right? Such terrifying math.

Karen Russell

#10. Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.

Jerry Toner

#11. Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one's magical resources when they were running low.

Lev Grossman

#12. Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

Alexander McQueen

#13. Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Charlie Munger

#14. Travel steadily in your define path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. This land carries people from different countries, different cultures, even different tongues, who even warred amongst themselves, but they are united over on only one cause; hate. The people of the Southern United States united in their hate against the free population of their previous slaves.

Max Connelly