Quotes About Slaveholding

#1. It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

Gerrit Smith

#2. Many of these slaveholding populists were celebrated by posterity as tribunes of the common people. Meanwhile, the self-made Hamilton, a fervent abolitionist and a staunch believer in meritocracy, was villainized in American history textbooks as an apologist of privilege and wealth.

Ron Chernow

#3. The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.

John C. Calhoun

#4. Some would even support the reopening of the African slave trade so that men like them could expand their labor force and non-slaveholders might have the opportunity to join the slaveholding class.

Steven Hahn

#5. Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population.

Roger B. Taney

#6. We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slaveholding States are of theirs, and rather better than they can be of ours.

John C. Calhoun

#7. What a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!

Robert Purvis

#8. If you tell a person about paradise,
It becomes a dream.
If you show a person paradise,
It becomes a goal!

Gabriel Madison

#9. What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.

Jason Reitman

#10. The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

Wright Morris

#11. He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

#13. Show me the contract.

Buffy Andrews

#14. You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

Yasmin Mogahed

#15. AWESOMENESS is the closest you're gonna get to heaven while you're here on earth.

Tanya Masse

#16. In all his trials he was sustained and at times even exalted by a secret strength in himself. The soul aids the body and at moments uplifts it. It is the only bird that can endure a cage.

Victor Hugo

#17. There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

Ed Koch

#18. Personality can either kill or enhance your appearance.

Mary Mihalic

#19. Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Marilyn French

#20. Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

Werner Herzog

#21. A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

George Eliot

#22. So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, switching to Yoda power probably isn't worth the trouble - though it would definitely be green.

Randall Munroe