Southern Slave Owner Quotes & Sayings

In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself. — Shannon L. Alder

Yeah, I'm bringing back the word "slattern." Deal — L. H. Cosway

Affirmation: I am true royalty of God's Kingdom for eternity.

Everlasting priceless love and God bless all humanity. We R 1. — Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible. — St. Vincent

The world does not end tonight
And the fruit that we will pick tomorrow
Await us, weighing the unstripped bough. — Charles Tomlinson

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. — Zora Neale Hurston

Love is a strange feeling indeed, a feeling that every person must experience at least once in his or her life. A feeling that makes us feel one with God! — Avijeet Das

Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not yet paid the full price for freedom. And whites have not yet faced the full cost of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Think crucial hanging.
Think crayon orange.
There is one low, leaning
heart-shaped globe left
and dearest, can you
tell, I am trying
to love you less. — Ada Limon

It's all right to make mistakes, you're only humanInside everybody's hiding something. — Dido Armstrong

Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it. — Steve Erickson

When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream. — Eckhart Tolle

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway. — John Malkovich

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why. — Pat Oliphant

Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more! — Thomas Pynchon

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom. — Thaddeus Stevens

...the thought of *never again* felt like death. — Robin Black

1845, when the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society declared that any slave owner would be disqualified from consideration for missionary service, Baptist churches in the South seceded and formed the Southern Baptist Convention so that members would not have to choose between their slaves and their calling to be missionaries. — Robert P. Jones