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 . . .
Quotes about plantation (16 Quotes)
Houmas House , 40136 La. 942, Darrow, east bank Once the largest sugar plantation in the South, Houmas House is one of the most spectacular antebellum homes on River Road. New Orleans businessman Kevin Kelly acquired the property in 2003 and restored it to the golden era the early 1800s. Many people seem to think everything east of Baton Rouge is gone, ... We need to let the world know we are still here. We need to let New Orleans people know we have a great restaurant, Latil's Landing. Our wine cellar has a 500-label collection. Water cisterns were converted to wine cellars. We placed dining tables in them and people can now have romantic dining there.
The world's costliest coffee, at 130 a pound, is called Kopi Luwak. Essentially, it is the droppings from a type of marsupial that eats only the very best coffee beans. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.
Rhett Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett What do you want Rhett I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes I love you Scarlett That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
The Cuban agricultural, conventional, 'Green Revolution' system never was able to feed the people. It had high yields, but was oriented to plantation agriculture. We exported citrus, tobacco, sugar cane and we imported the basic things. So the system, even in the good times, never fulfilled people's basic needs.
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.
It's a catch-22 that has resulted in farm foresters right around Australia selling their mature plantation trees to sawmills for a pittance in stumpage returns,
I am very happy to bring back college golf to Hilton Head Island and to partner with such a wonderful golf course and plantation of Wexford's caliber. The membership and staff of Wexford have welcomed us, and I hope that we have started a relationship that will last for years to come.
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.
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.
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
We need to think about a new political party. The Democrats have used us and abused us. They look at the black and the brown and the poor like this is a plantation, and our Democratic leaders are like the house Negro on the plantation of Democratic politics.