Quotes About The Slave Ships

#1. I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

Kendrick Lamar

#2. He bade the slave ships speed from coast to coast, Fanned by the wings of the Holy Ghost.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#3. It doesn't take much power to hurt someone," she said. "It's far easier than healing the damage.

Jim Butcher

#4. 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:

Julie Ingersoll

#5. Sacrifice and neon lights slave ships don't wait. Love many, trust few, and don't be late

Tom Morello

#6. 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.

Pat Buchanan

#7. Father believed in a government of the people, but was weary of who those people were.

Jamie Ford

#8. 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.

Jesse Jackson

#9. If only you could take that final step, you'd see farther than ll the rest. You'd be alone with nothing but blue sky above you.

George R R Martin

#10. I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can't settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won't let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?

Soseki Natsume

#11. Most players unfortunately go to the casinos with an attitude that makes it even easier for casinos to psyche them into losing. Most except to lose; therefore, it's not too surprising when they achieve their goal.

Henry Tamburin

#12. 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.

John Henrik Clarke

#13. 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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#14. Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

Lady Bird Johnson

#15. Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

Laozi

#16. 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.

Marcus Rediker

#17. Janvier watched Ashwini stride away, her hips moving provocatively beneath the snug fit of her jeans. "Take care of her," he said quietly to his friend. "She is my eternity, Louis.

Nalini Singh

#18. 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.

Yaa Gyasi

#19. I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.

Michael Koryta

#20. Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

Stephen Hawking

#21. 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.

Malcolm X

#22. As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

Robert Breault

#23. People can be slave ships in shoes.

Zora Neale Hurston

#24. slave rebellions occurred on approximately 10 percent of all slave ships,

Bernard Bailyn

#25. Bubotubers," Professor Sprout told them briskly. "They need squeezing. You will collect the pus - "
"The what?" said Seamus Finnigan, sounding revolted.
"Pus, Finnigan, pus," said Professor Sprout.

J.K. Rowling

#26. If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

Dirk Benedict