Plantations Quotes

• Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Home
  • Style
  • Evening

• Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

  

  William Bradford
  • Father
  • Ocean
  • Ready

• Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

  

  Alveda King
  • May
  • Way
  • Financial

• Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Eye
  • Lawns
  • Plantations

• My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Play
  • Wind
  • Plantations

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

  

  Morris Dees
  • Europe
  • African
  • Enforcement

• I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

  

  Charles Lenox Remond
  • Speak
  • Hands
  • Speech