Slave Quotes - Page 39

• Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Unique, Community, Roles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Virginia, Feet, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  People, Good Things, Trade

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Here I Am, Giving, World

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• The media has outright lied on me. They reported that I called myself Osama's [Bin Laden] 'sex slave,' apparently unaware that sex slaves aren't allowed to look their master in the eye, write poetry with him or go on hunting excursions with him.

  Kola Boof

  Sex, Eye, Writing

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• I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!

  Kola Boof

  Sex, Mistress, Definitions

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

  Kola Boof

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins." I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.

  Laura Lippman

  New York, Attitude, Past

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.

  Laura Lippman

  Mother, Agriculture, Grandfather

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.

  Satish Kumar

  Corporations, Making Money, Profit

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Independent, Firsts, Sides

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.

  Bela Fleck

  Roots, United States, Chapters

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Girl, Growing Up, Character

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five that are cheaper but made with GMO cotton, which is hard on Earth, sewn by slave labor, shipped all the way from China on boats that use lots of oil and can kill whales with ship strikes and sold by (some) companies that could treat their

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Two, Oil, Gmos

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• Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

  Vandana Shiva

  Energy, India, Looks

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

  Manisha Sinha

  Ongoing, Slavery, Way

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

  Naomi Novik

  Thinking, Dragons, Southern

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Holiday, Years, Two

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• There were stories coming out of Thailand that slave labor was being used to catch and process the seafood we eat. They were nearly all from Miramar. Because of reports of widespread labor abuses, several countries are now considering a ban on imports of Thai seafood.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Country, Slave Labor, Abuse

  "Thailand Tuna Plant Workers Win 'Unprecedented' Settlement". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. March 5, 2016.

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• Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it's like nothing the world has ever seen.

  Ben Fountain

  Christian, Successful, Unique

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Girl, Book, Writing

  "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

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• In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

  Michael Emerson

  Worship You, Choices, Masters

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.

  Nell Irvin Painter

  White, Black, Hemisphere

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

  Kevin Bales

  Styrofoam, Input, Today

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

  Laurent Dubois

  Firsts, Revolution, Remember

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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