My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful. — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
“In post-1959 Hawai‘i, hotels and resorts were becoming the new plantations.” — Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua 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
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
In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves. — Alan Keyes 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
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
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness. — William Bradford Copy Share Image
I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money… — Andrea McLean 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
Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of… — Matthew Chapman 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
The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of… — Laurent Dubois 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
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
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
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
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while… — Ruth Stout 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
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to… — Eduardo Galeano 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
“Even the banana plantations, the big, hardy trees on the flanks of Mount St. Andrew, seemed to lilt and acquiesce in the… — Anthony Doerr 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
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'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
“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
