Quotes About Slavery Before The Civil War

#1. If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson

#2. The message we give our bodies - one of irritation or acceptance - is the message to which our bodies will answer.

Debbie Shapiro

#3. Plan your life, keeping value of time in mind because time is your life and it is very limited.

Debasish Mridha

#4. You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

Benjamin Walker

#5. I always know I can die at any moment.

Jonny Lee Miller

#6. There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Annie Dillard

#7. Can one build an honest house on dishonest foundation? I do not know. But I do know that I want to try. (Edward Ferrier)

Agatha Christie

#8. I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

Malin Akerman

#9. I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

Kirk Douglas

#10. Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

Andrew Young

#12. With the postwar depression,
however, the farmers' problems became the bankers' problems, and the insurance companies', and the USDAs. Suddenly, everyone was interested in helping the farmer become modern.21

Deborah Fitzgerald

#13. I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate travel, I hate living out of suitcases, I hate the constant anxiety of being on stage.

Garth Greenwell

#14. Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even if you look good or you look bad, you still need to have all of those things to be on stage. You're going to get criticized by everyone.

BeBe Zahara Benet

#15. Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

Stanley Kunitz