Slaveholder Quotes

#1. Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

Denis Kearney

#2. At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

Frederick Douglass

#3. I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.

Harriet Tubman

#4. One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

Angelina Grimke

#5. They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.

William Wells Brown

#7. So far from thinking that a slaveholder is bound by the immoral and unconstitutional laws of the Southern States, we hold thathe is solemnly bound as a man, as an American, to break them, and that immediately and openly ...

Angelina Grimke

#8. The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Mark Twain

#9. The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

Henry Clarke Wright

#10. I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

Harriet Tubman

#11. To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Stephen Ambrose

#12. I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.

John C. Calhoun

#13. Every reporter who came up in legacy media can tell you about a come-to-Jesus moment when an editor put them up against a wall and tattooed a message deep into their skull: show respect for the fundamentals of the craft, or you would not soon be part of it.

Mary Karr

#14. My belly button is not simply a trace of my birth, but a precious seal and a mark, a reminder of my connection with the Source of life and all life forms.

Ilchi Lee

#15. the regime had been notably anti-anti-Semitic.

Tom Reiss

#16. Vegetables were almost nonexistent, and what passed for meat was either rancid or pure fat. The men were surviving on crackers and moldy flour. Lee was beginning to understand what this meant to the fighting strength of the army.

Jeff Shaara

#17. I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.

Matt Groening

#18. When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

William Greider

#19. He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

Antonio Porchia