Robert E Lee Slavery Quotes & Sayings

I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that. — Bonnie Bedelia

In perhaps the strangest statement published on the issue of arming slaves, the Mercury charged Robert E. Lee (who had not yet made his views public but was privately known to be a supporter) with being a Federalist-like Alexander Hamilton-someone who had always evidenced a "profound
disbelief in the institution of slavery." This comparison was drawn in contrast to South Carolina's great Democratic/states' rights standard-bearer John C. Calhoun, and the paper put the question starkly as "JOHN C. CALHOUN VS. DANIEL WEBSTER and ROBERT E. LEE. — Anne Sarah Rubin

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained. — Robert E.Lee

You shall guide me with Your counsel - and afterward receive me to glory! Psalm 73:24 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I'm six foot four - hello. And with hair, heels, and attitude ... I'm through the mother-freakin' roof! — RuPaul

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land. — Christopher Columbus

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. — Robert E.Lee

I put a mustache and some eyebrows on, and I looked just like Nicolas Cage ... We have the same amazingly handsome good looks. — Marilyn Manson

She wasn't getting it. They never teased her. They never followed her around with their phones, trying to catch her in a compromising position. They never called her a ho-bag or a troll or said she danced like an elephant on crank. They never, not once, dribbled pee in her ballet bag or stuck shaved pubes in her ChapStick. They never told her she wouldn't ever be good enough to make the New York City Ballet, and that they'd wave to her from the stage, maybe, one day, if they remembered who she was when they were famous. — Nova Ren Suma

All her life, Parwana had made sure to avoid standing in front of a mirror with her sister [...] But in public, every stranger's eye was a mirror. There was no escape — Khaled Hosseini

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. — Robert E.Lee

What are we doing?" Simon asked as they followed the cart across the castle's bailey and into London. "We're following yon wagon," Sin answered. "Why?" "Because it is in front of us." "Well, that certainly answers that. 'Twould be difficult to follow the cart if it were behind us."
-Simon & Sin — Kinley MacGregor

I was stunned to see that he looked stunned himself, which was an exorbitant display of emotion for Barrons. — Karen Marie Moning

'Cause we are each other's angels And we meet when it is time We keep each other going And we show each other signs — Chuck Brodsky

Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??
Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth. — Toba Beta

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day. — Robert E.Lee

There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie Lambert — David Baldacci

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way. — Claire Messud

I think that if you are looking at a comic that's made by one person, that there's just a level of intimacy that I don't really see anywhere else. — Adrian Tomine

I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's courage and her resourcefulness.. She is really pioneering in both the world of autism and animal rights. She has encouraged an incredibly positive change in the world. — Claire Danes