Quakers And Slavery Quotes & Sayings

a glass table nearby, with magazines carefully fanned out across it. — Kelly Favor

She moved in for a better look.It was a portrait of Bob Marley,a pretty good one,actually.No Woman, No Cry ... that's right.No teenage girls either.All right,ten points if you'Re a poet,minus twenty-five if you're in a band and minus fifty if you're into the ganja. — Sheri Meshal

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition. — Thomas Clarkson

Money doesn't spend in hell ... The devil deals in a different coin. — Laurell K. Hamilton

so your uncle tells
your brother,
"There's more
chairs in the
shed."

And your brother says,
under his breath
so almost no one
can hear, "Well,
what if I don't
want to sit
in the shed? — Hosho McCreesh

But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk, I ran up against the kids in our building and felt fortunate, after a few brushes with those little cannibals, to return to my reading in one piece. — Gunter Grass

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves. — W. H. Auden

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful. — Eugene Ionesco

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer. — Caroline Glick

She scrunched herself around the tickling and giggled. It was a heavenly sound. He moved the bunny back, hopped it forward, tickled her again. The giggling was precious, both in its lack of guile and its spontaneity. He was amazed at how easily it had come. — Barbara Delinsky

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. — Anne Rice

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts. — Sun Tzu

I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna. — Tina Brown

To condemn slavery was one thing - that I could do in my own individual heart - but female ministers! — Sue Monk Kidd

There's precious little to say between day and dark,
Perhaps a few words on the implacable will
Of time sailing like a magic barque
Or something as fine for the amenities ... — Allen Tate

The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa. — Angelique Kidjo