Slave Next Door Quotes & Sayings

It did not take Bunch very long, amid the politicking and the revelry, to discover the darker side of life in Charleston's homes. "The frightful atrocities of slaveholding must be seen to be described," he wrote in a private letter that wound up prominently positioned in the official slave-trade correspondence of the Foreign Office. "My next-door neighbor, a lawyer of the first distinction and a member of the Southern Aristocracy, told me himself that he flogged all his own people - men and women - when they misbehaved. I hear also that he makes them strip, and after telling them that they were to consider it as a great condescension on his part to touch them, gives them a certain number of lashes with a cow-hide. The frightful evil of the system is that it debases the whole tone of society - for the people talk calmly of horrors which would not be mentioned in civilized society. It is literally no more to kill a slave than to shoot a dog. — Christopher Dickey

O craving heart, for the lost flowers/ And sunshine of my summer hours!/ The undying voice of that dead time,/ With its interminable chime,/ Rings in the spirit of a spell, / Upon thy emptiness
a knell. / I have not always been as now: — Edgar Allan Poe

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are. — Marcus Sakey

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard

Mankind's a dead issue now, cousin. There are no more souls. Only states of mind. — Bruce Sterling

I like how you're neither here nor there. And how there's nowhere else you're meant to be while waiting. You're just sort of suspended. — Jennifer E. Smith

Ah, hell. Before I met you, the only men I'd hung out with wore more makeup than I wear in a month and weren't interested in my plumbing. — Tessa McFionn

He always held that panic was the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people faced with hungry saber-toothed tigers could be divided very simply into those who panicked and those who stood there saying "What a magnificent brute!" and "Here, pussy. — Terry Pratchett

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. — Sanaya Roman