Enslavers Quotes & Sayings

It has nothing to do with how you wear your pants or how you style your hair. The breach is as intentional as policy, as intentional as the forgetting that follows. The breach allows for the efficient sorting of the plundered from the plunderers, the enslaved from the enslavers, sharecroppers from landholders, cannibals from food. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty. — Steven J. Lawson

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person. — Carrie Underwood

I've fallen in love with you, he whispered to kiss the top of my hand. — Anna Carey

And when we combine the information from the first document that Boswell recorded - the deed or act of sale, which showed that Pierce was selling Ellen to Barthelemy Bonny of Orleans Parish for $420 - with a second one, we can see that in the 1820s enslavers had also come as close to fully monetizing human bodies and lives as any set of capitalists have ever done. — Edward E. Baptist

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there. — Mahatma Gandhi

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you. — Marilyn Manson

On island after island, Europeans and their pathogens killed the natives, slave ships appeared on the horizon, and cane sprouted in the fields. Streams of survivors crawled forth from slave ships to replenish the cane-field work gangs of men and women as they died. But enslavers grew fabulously rich. — Edward E. Baptist

Failure is nothing more than a prelude to success - and a poetic one at that. — Michael Parrish DuDell

He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and not simply for the sake of instructing them, but as though thirsting to share with all men and all creation his joy and ecstasy, and once more in his life to open up his whole heart. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery ... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public ... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!! — Adela Popescu

They were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths — H.P. Lovecraft

When you let another steal your joy you give them power over you. Don't let anyone steal your smile — Tammy Johnson

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support! — Jeremy Lin

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea. — Norton Juster

By the 1850s enslavers had their eyes on expansion into Cuba in order to expand Southern political power. Here we see an idyllic image of a Cuba tobacco plantation, plus the idea of "Southern rights" being used to sell cigars. "Southerner rights segars. Expressly manufactured for Georgia & Alabama by Salomon Brothers. Fabrica de tabacos, de superior calidad de la vuelta-abajo," Broadside, 1859. — Edward E. Baptist

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about. — Jimi Hendrix

chain kept moving, and Ball led the file down through Virginia into North Carolina at a steady pace. As the days wore on, the men, who were never out of the chains, grew dirtier and dirtier. Lice hopped from scalp to scalp at night. Black-and-red lines of scabs bordered the manacles. No matter: The Georgia-man would let the people clean themselves before they got to market. In the meantime, the men were the propellant for the coffle-chain, which was more than a tool, more than mere metal. It was a machine. Its iron links and bands forced the black people inside them to do exactly what entrepreneurial enslavers, and investors far distant from slavery's frontier, needed them to do in order to turn a $300 Maryland or Virginia purchase into a $600 Georgia sale. — Edward E. Baptist

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions. — William J. Brennan