Plantations Quotes - Page 2

• I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' till I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your restroom is not inside the house.

  B. B. King

  Money, Men, House

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• It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.

  Thomas Hardy

  Potente, Primavera, Conmovedora

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.119, e-artnow

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• Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

  Jesse Jackson

  Vistas, Orden, Gente

  "How we respect life is the over-riding moral issue" by Jesse Jackson in "Right to Life News", groups.csail.mit.edu. January 1977.

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• What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, England, Slave

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal: Aug. 16, 1856-Aug. 7, 1857”

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• El Musketaquid, o río Grass-ground, aunque probablemente tan antiguo como el Nilo o el Éufrates, no empezó a tener un lugar en la historia civilizada hasta que la fama de sus praderas cubiertas de hierba y sus peces atrajo a colonos de Inglaterra en 1635, cuando recibió el otro nombre, aunque afín, de CONCORD por la primera plantación en sus orillas, que parece haber comenzado con un espíritu de paz y armonía. Será Grass-ground River mientras crezca la hierba y corra el agua por aquí; será Concord River sólo mientras los hombres lleven una vida pacífica en sus orillas.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Correr, Hombres, Nombres

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). "The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"", p.5, Princeton University Press.

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• Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
  Full and fair ones; come and buy.
  If so be you ask me where
  They do grow, I answer: There,
  Where my Julia's lips do smile;
  There's the land, or cherry-isle,
  Whose plantations fully show
  All the year where cherries grow.

  Robert Herrick

  Years, Land, Answers

  'Cherry-Ripe'

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• If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Southern, Soul, Literature

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.81

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• My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the shadows of a North Carolina plantation. It's only been in my lifetime that blacks have had the right to vote, live in certain areas or hold certain jobs. It is with this black history that I write about the financial challenges African-Americans still have.

  Michelle Singletary

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Doctors, Class

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• For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.

  David Mitchell

  Men, White Man, Sea

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• Rhett: No empieces a coquetear conmigo. No soy uno de tus galanes de plantación. Quiero algo más que coquetear contigo.
  ¿Qué quieres?
  Rhett: Te lo diré, Scarlett O'Hara, si quitas de tu cara esa mueca de belleza sureña. Algún día quiero que me digas las palabras que te oí decir a Ashley Wilkes: "¡Te quiero!".
  Eso es algo que nunca oirás de mí, capitán Butler, mientras vivas.

  Clark Gable

  Love, Flirting, Long

  "Personaje de ficción: Rhett Butler". "Lo que el viento se llevó", 1939.

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• There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.

  Isak Dinesen

  Rain, Coffee, Clouds

  Isak Dinesen (1938). "Memorias de África"

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• Grecia es una especie de vasallo estadounidense; Holanda es el país de las bases estadounidenses que crecen como bulbos de tulipán; Cuba es la principal plantación azucarera de los monopolios estadounidenses; Turquía está dispuesta a doblegarse ante cualquier procónsul de Estados Unidos y Canadá es el aburrido segundo violín de la sinfonía estadounidense.

  Andrei Gromyko

  Campo, Pavos, Sinfonía

  New York Herald Tribune, 30 de junio de 1953.

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• Los otros esclavos del campo nunca dejaban que el esclavo de la casa supiera lo que realmente pensaban. Si el esclavo de la casa decía, bueno uno de estos días todos nosotros viviremos en la plantación, ellos decían, uh huh. Le seguían la corriente. Pero si te acercabas a ellos y les decías, vámonos, se iban así de fácil. Y en, en América tienes la misma situación. Tienes a las vastas masas que aún son esclavas.

  Malcolm X

  Pensamiento, América, Casa

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• Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  País, Creer, Hombres

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• The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

  Niall Ferguson

  History, Racist, Prosperity

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• The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.

  Frank Knight

  Jobs, Exercise, People

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• If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece of the MLK dinner. Why am I the only one who has the guts to stand up to this Democrat Media Complex that insists that black people must exist on the Democrat plantation.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Rights, Media, People

  Fuente: www.newsbusters.org

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• To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

  Ruth Stout

  Children, Memories, Betrayal

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• En un rincón del cementerio crecía una plantación de violetas blancas, enormemente gordas y de aspecto próspero. ... Vi a los muertos extendidos bajo mí en la tierra, alimentando a estas flores con una fina leche extraída de sus huesos.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Flower, White, Saws

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). "La balada y la fuente", Harvest Books

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• Si lees la historia de la esclavitud y ves el papel que desempeñaba el Tío Tom en la plantación, y luego ves cómo el hombre blanco de hoy ha cambiado sus tácticas, pero sigue ocupando la misma posición, en ese mismo contexto encuentras al Tío Tom. Ha cambiado sus tácticas, pero sigue ocupando la misma posición.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Men, White Man

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• Para mí, el entretenimiento es realmente la nueva plantación. Es el nuevo azúcar, el nuevo algodón, que los negros trabajen para que otro sea más rico que ellos.

  Haile Gerima

  People, Black, Cotton

  Fuente: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

  Bill Gates

  Military, War, Atlanta

  "A Q&A with Bill Gate". Interview with Kristi Heim, www.seattletimes.com. September 25, 2007.

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• What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

  Morris Dees

  Law, Europe, African American

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• Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

  Thomas Szasz

  Commitment, Slavery, Problem

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