Slave Owners Received Quotes & Sayings

This place is as dead as dice. Nothing safer to rob than a grave, if you can push past the creep factor. — H.L. Burke

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror. — Francis Quarles

Have you found a stairs to the light? The first thing you must do is to inform others so that you can all together go to the light! Without others, even the place where light exists will be dark! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Maybe I could find a book to help me beat my book-buying addiction. — Trace Riles

Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend. — Richard Llewellyn

I am NOT alone. I am accompanied by a large cat and a small girl. — Neil Gaiman

For want of modesty is want of sense. — Benjamin Franklin

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. — Rupert Everett

God has blessed me to see the luxury side of things. — DJ Khaled

Or guides might initiate a discussion of slave names. Many owners insisted on the right to name their newborn slaves - rather than allowing their parents this pleasure - and then deliberately gave them demeaning names or names that ironically invoked godlike figures from antiquity. George Washington, for instance, used Hercules, Paris-boy, Sambo, Sucky, Flukey, Doll, Suck Bass, Caesar, and Cupid. Most slaves received no last names. Guides could ask visitors to imagine the self-respect of black children under these conditions. — James W. Loewen

If I were going to put a price tag on my lady parts, I'd find a more appetizing buyer. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Twas the day before Thanksgiving
And all through the trees,
The fall leaves were spinning
Aloft in the breeze.

Eight children had boarded
Their school bus with grins
In hopes that a field trip
Soon would begin.

They sang as they rode
Through autumn terrains,
While visions of drumsticks
Danced in their brains. — Dav Pilkey