Slaveowners Quotes & Sayings

Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim - Nature abhors a vacuum. Fill their minds with your stories and they will adore you; leave their minds free to roam and they will hatch plans to destroy you" (181). — Elizabeth Nunez

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar. — Frederick Lenz

If you are still alive when you read this,
close your eyes. I am
under their lids, growing black. — Bill Knott

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation. — Edward T. Hall

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. — John Milton

I inhaled slowly and thought about making a joke about how the NSA doesn't really need to call anyone; they just interrupt while you're already on the phone. — Penny Reid

It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now. — Gary Johnson

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots. — Ambrose Bierce

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South. — Susan B. Anthony

I once preached to a man in a telephone booth,
Long ago during the days of my youth,
I grew up different from the other boys,
As a little boy I studied the scriptures and avoided toys — Lisbon Tawanda Chigwenjere

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return. — Judy Blundell