1619 Slavery Quotes & Sayings

I have what you might call the South Pole and the North Pole. I have my team and my work, which I do on one side, and I have my family and my home on the other side. Both have nothing really to do with each other. — Michael Schumacher

In spite of these disasters, some of the tribesmen continued to fight for their territory, but they were quickly overwhelmed and taken into captivity, placed aboard ships and sold as slaves in the West Indies. At the same time the whites were bringing to America their own slaves whose skins were black. The first shipments of these unfortunates were brought to Jamestown for sale by the Dutch in 1619. Within two decades the British realized what a lucrative trade slavery was, so they ousted the Dutch slave traders and, in 1639, established their own Royal African Company to make massive raids on the native villages of the Dark Continent and bring the chained captives to America to satisfy the ever-growing demand for slave labor.6 In all such matters, the human cruelty inflicted on people of either red skin or black was of precious little concern to the imperious British. — Allan W. Eckert

The library, and step on it! — David Foster Wallace

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory. — Ernest Lehman

Like most fat people who've been lectured about diet and exercise since childhood, I actually know an inordinate amount about nutrition and fitness. — Lindy West

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. — John Grisham

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor. — Moliere

Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Corbyn was not elected by the parliamentary party but by people who have the luxury of sounding off without the responsibility of answering for it. Corbyn represents the idiocy of direct democracy, and the culture of resentment that takes advantage of it. — Roger Scruton

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. — Salvatore Quasimodo

Apart, that is, from the line of artistically naked ladies along its parapets. They were holding urns; urns is art. — Terry Pratchett

Fine art is in the last consequence,
philosophy expressed visually. — Max Bill

I've seen 'karma' slap people in the face. You have to be good to people. It really does come around. — Kirsten Dunst

One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun. — William Shakespeare