"Really, it was difficult to determine which I……" — Solomon Northup
"Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!"
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Solomon Northup
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16 Quotes by Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup has 16 quotes on this site.
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They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his…
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I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;
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What difference is there in the color of the soul?
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Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.
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My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!
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It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of…
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It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,
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Is everything right because the law allows it?
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There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom.…
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I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as…
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There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of…
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Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern…
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More Alligators Quotes
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Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and…
— Buddy Hackett
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.
— Bob Hope
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It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting…
— George Foreman
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It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
— Ronald Reagan
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Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie…
— Charlie Daniels
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It’s so hard for me to sit back here in this studio, looking at a guy out here, hollering my…
— Ric Flair
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A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
— Homer
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Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought…
— Homer
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The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
— Mike Pence
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First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain't natural anything get that big. It's…
— Unknown Author
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It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised…
— Kelly Brook
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What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely…
— S.A. Bodeen
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