Proslavery Quotes & Sayings

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here ... — Jeffrey Kluger

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten. — Neil Cavuto

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity. — William Of Ockham

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future. — John Sentamu

Look, Rose. You don't have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You already got me. — Richelle Mead

Don't be surprised if you all see me in different kinds of cinema. — Tena Desae

Planters clung to their proslavery beliefs even when there were facts to the contrary because the stakes involved in abandoning them were too high. They could not reject or even compromise their central myths, for to do so would mean condemning a whole culture as a lie...Ideologies, once constructed, have lives of their own. Any evidence which might have contradicted the planters' basic beliefs faced an a priori denial. — James L. Roark

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven. — Jean Ingelow

The northern public immediately assumed that Douglas was handing Kansas to the South as another slave state because proslavery emigrants from Missouri were certain to dominate its politics. In the ensuing uproar the disintegrating Whig Party disappeared altogether, and a new antislavery Republican Party was born. — Norman K. Risjord

Some religions, such as Catholicism, fully endorsed slavery, as Pope Nicholas V made clear when, in 1452, he issued the radically proslavery document Dum Diversas. This was a papal bull granting Catholic countries such as Spain and Portugal "full and free permission to invade, search out, capture, and subjugate the Saracens and pagans and any other unbelievers and enemies of Christ wherever they may be, as well as their kingdoms, duchies, counties, principalities, and other property ... and to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery."10 These last few words - to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery - sound not just sinister to us, but also psychotic. They make perfect sense, however, in a Christian context, given that the Bible is itself a heedlessly proslavery tome. — Michael Shermer

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed. — Gerrit Smith

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist. — Lemony Snicket

I've always liked simplicity. — Marissa Mayer

I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't. — John Green

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do. — Eriq La Salle

Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act! — Abiola Abrams

Religion deals with the highest levels of meaning. As a result, it can interpret each life or each event in a context that runs from the beginning of time to future eternity. Religion is thus uniquely capable of offering high-level meaning to human life. Religion
may not always be the best way to make life meaningful, but it is probably the most reliable way. — Roy F. Baumeister

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. — Virginia Woolf