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title: "4 Plantation Owners Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-edward-griffin/many-southern-plantation-owners-were-working-towards-the-day-when/)

[G. Edward Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-edward-griffin/)

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> [In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-keyes/in-this-respect-granting-homosexuals-the-right-to-marry-is-like/)

[Alan Keyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-keyes/)

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> [“The past is not alive to them the way it is to Georges; they do not remember—and thus do not see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-reiss/the-past-is-not-alive-to-them-the-way-it-is-to-georges-they-do-not/)

[Tom Reiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-reiss/)

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> [My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-abbott/my-forebears-refused-to-cut-the-sugar-cane-for-plantation-owners-and/)

[Diane Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-abbott/)

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