Plantations Quotes

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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' till I… — B B King
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to… — John Woolman
There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived… — Harry Belafonte
I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot… — Andrea McLean
The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what… — Ariel Sharon
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and… — Daniel Defoe
Blacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation. — Pat Buchanan
In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves. — Alan Keyes
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India. — Julie Christie
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was… — John Coleman
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in… — G. Edward Griffin
If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the… — H.G. Wells
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day — Eduardo Galeano
Rock â€™n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and… — Alan Freed
Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing… — Matthew Chapman
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine… — Steve Almond
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet,… — Bernd Heinrich
You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation. — Zach Braff
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our… — Huey Newton

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