My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful. — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
Are we not the son of slaves? Yeah! Are we not the children that run away from plantations? — Junior Delgado Copy Share Image
What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans. — Morris Dees Copy Share Image
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“Plantations of good morals are easily captivated, colonized and corrupted by the pests of a bad company. Spray away bad companies and… — israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter… — David Walker Copy Share Image
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and… — Alan Freed Copy Share Image
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people...… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaux. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What… — Clark Gable Copy Share Image
The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When the Planters fled from Haiti, they established coffee farms or cafetales, as part of their newly formed Plantation. Generally, coffee profits… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain -… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of them… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
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