Slave Ships From Africa Quotes & Sayings

In the perspective of our species, life has favored humanity as a whole by promoting as much wealth of variety and options as possible, and has distributed everything using the four winds. Life has given mankind everything it has, without segregation and without consideration of which characteristic or quality best suits the situations or the periods.
Only by having the totality of human characteristics and options can we hope to deal with all periods to come.
Our collective is our key to survival and well-being. — Haroutioun Bochnakian

Katherine often teases me that I'm missing the need-a-boyfriend gene, but the truth is I just haven't met anyone who ... well, whom I'm attracted to, even though part of me longs for the fabled trembling knees, heart-in-my-mouth, butterflies-in-my-belly moments. Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high. But in reality, nobody's ever made me feel like that. — E.L. James

I'm just trying to show the world what an imagination can do when it isn't strained by humanly limitations. — Lu Groblebe

US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory. — Edward Snowden

The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the free market according to the laws of supply and demand. Private slave-trading companies sold shares on the Amsterdam, London and Paris stock exchanges. Middle-class Europeans looking for a good investment bought these shares. Relying on this money, the companies bought ships, hired sailors and soldiers, purchased slaves in Africa, and transported them to America. There they sold the slaves to the plantation owners, using the proceeds to purchase plantation products such as sugar, cocoa, coffee, tobacco, cotton and rum. — Yuval Noah Harari

When considering marriage, the first thing you need to do is create a proper framework for thinking about whether or not you should actually do it. The first question you have to ask yourself is "Am I totally high on crack?" If the answer is no, then the next question you should ask yourself is "Why, if I'm not totally high on crack, am I even thinking about getting married? — The Gang

Drew doesn't make me feel like myself. He makes me feel better than myself. As if there is a little broken part in me, rattling and loose, and whenever he's near it falls into place and tightens. The thought has me withdrawing, sinking into that cold, thick place that chokes me. I'm beginning to need him too much. — Kristen Callihan

Wishing is a goal without energy behind it. — Robert Anthony

We regarded each other sitting around the breakfast table with its big cardboard boxes of "Fear," "Chix," and "Rats. — Donald Barthelme

We all want to look younger, become stronger and healthier and live longer. — Suzanne Fields

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand

America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. — Pat Buchanan

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities. — Geoffrey Rush

Oh wow, there's another fly on the wall! Look, there's a new dog sleeping on the sidewalk. Yippee. — R.J. Palacio

Human history's greatest crime was the traffic in black flesh when the devil white man went into Africa and murdered and kidnapped to bring to the West in chains, in slave ships, millions of black men, women, and children, who were worked and beaten and tortured as slaves. — Malcolm X

I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last. — Daniela Ruah

They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins. — Ransom Riggs