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
I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle… — Julie Christie Copy Share Image
Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to… — Luther Allison Copy Share Image
In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of… — John Lawson Copy Share Image
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. ... I saw the dead stretched… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are… — Bernd Heinrich 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" - sit… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We have to convince people that the handouts – just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
I remember, and I will never forget, one day - I was six years old and I was playing beside the road… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The plantations in the Hilo district enjoy special advantages, for by turning some of the innumerable mountain streams into flumes, the owners… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow,… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing… — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like being New Orleans. Different aspects. You have the lake house. You have a huge, almost plantation-style house, so I like… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
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