Plantations Quotes

53 Plantations quotes by 49 unique authors

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation. — Cornel West
The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it… — John Lawson
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,… — Christina Stead
We have to convince people that the handouts – just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow,… — Elbert Guillory
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is… — Henry David Thoreau
A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which… — Ned Sublette
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted. — Ned Sublette
I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family… — Rebecca Wells
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. — Diane Abbott
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have. — Kamisese Mara
It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to… — David Walker
It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if… — Marian Wright Edelman
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to… — Alveda King
I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my… — Ariel Sharon
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still… — Billie Holiday
What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the… — Rosa Luxemburg
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!… — David Mitchell
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The… — Cornel West
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when… — Jane Austen
This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one… — Aldo Leopold
Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially… — Nicholas Sparks
The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory… — Loretta Napoleoni
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations:… — Mark Shand
Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to… — John Sergeant Wise

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