Quotes About Slave Ships

#1. The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel. - Author: Sidney Sheldon

#2. As thy days, so shall thy strength be. - Author: Jane Goodall

#3. slave rebellions occurred on approximately 10 percent of all slave ships, - Author: Bernard Bailyn

#4. O my beloved! Wherever I am, I am with you always because you are always in my heart. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#5. Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave - Author: Michael Lee West

#6. Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish. - Author: E. M. Bounds

#7. People can be slave ships in shoes. - Author: Zora Neale Hurston

#8. I am in support of the NRA position on gun control. - Author: William J. Clinton

#9. I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film. - Author: Campbell Scott

#10. He bade the slave ships speed from coast to coast, Fanned by the wings of the Holy Ghost. - Author: Robert G. Ingersoll

#11. Human history's greatest crime was the traffic in black flesh when the devil white man went into Africa and murdered and kidnapped to bring to the West in chains, in slave ships, millions of black men, women, and children, who were worked and beaten and tortured as slaves. - Author: Malcolm X

#12. When he was young, his father told him that black people didn't like water because they were brought over on slave ships. What did a black man want to swim for? The ocean floor was already littered with black men. - Author: Yaa Gyasi

#13. One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery. - Author: Amy Vanderbilt

#14. The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature. - Author: Marcus Rediker

#15. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. - Author: Anonymous

#16. I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. - Author: Charles Bukowski

#17. Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. - Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

#18. It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up. - Author: John Henrik Clarke

#19. In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice. - Author: Doc Hastings

#20. Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being. - Author: William Ramsay

#21. I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years. - Author: John Malkovich

#22. His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight. - Author: Jesse Jackson

#23. America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. - Author: Pat Buchanan

#24. Sacrifice and neon lights slave ships don't wait. Love many, trust few, and don't be late - Author: Tom Morello

#25. Are you smiling? I'm so angry it kills me. So angry I'm going crazy. I'm just going to wait today. Just today. - Author: Jung Woo

#26. I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs - Author: Kendrick Lamar

#27. According to Rushdoony, the conditions of the Irish transport were as bad or worse than what we know of slave ships, and the condition of Irish immigrants on arrival was "far worse than that of slaves: - Author: Julie Ingersoll

#28. window, with Rig trotting - Author: Philippa Gregory