Enslavement Of Africans Quotes & Sayings

It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning. — John Neihardt

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' ... there is no end to it. — Barry Unsworth

Ruin your fucking self before they do. Otherwise they'll screw you because you're a nobody. They'll keep you alive but you'll have to crawl and say "thank-you" for every bone they throw. You might as well stay drunk or shoot junk and be a crazy fucker. If the rich guys want to play with you, make them get their hands dirty. Send them away gagging, or sobbing if they're soft-hearted. You'll be left alone if you're frightening, and dead you're free! — Jenny Holzer

Scared my grandmother so much she nearly had kittens. — Neil Gaiman

By the mid-1770s, the system of bond labor had been thoroughly transformed into a racial caste system predicated on slavery. The degraded status of Africans was justified on the ground that Negros, like the Indians, were an uncivilized lesser race, perhaps even more lacking in intelligence and laudable human qualities than the red-skinned natives. The notion of white supremacy rationalized the enslavement of Africans, even as whites endeavored to form a new nation based on the ideals of equality, liberty, and justice for all. Before democracy, chattel slavery in America was born. — Michelle Alexander

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul. — Jean-Paul Sartre

No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers. — Thomas Sowell

I Never Met A Malbec I Didn't Like — Michael C. Higgins, PhD

Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy. — Alber Elbaz

My perfectly measured ingredients should have mixed and turned into an epic lava. Instead it looks like an outtake from an old sci-fi movie. Green goo has killed my volcano. My chance to win the science fair at Sendak has been slimed! — Angela Cervantes

You can't edit a blank page — Nora Roberts

Tell me," Wittgenstein's asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating? — Ludwig Wittgenstein

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. — Orson Welles

It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me. — Judith Light

One way or another we all work for our vice. — Ben Maddow