Butterfly McQueen quotes

Butterfly McQueen quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.”
-- Butterfly McQueen

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

#Slavery Quotes #Ancestor Quotes
“I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!”
-- Butterfly McQueen

#Baby Quotes
“I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!”
-- Butterfly McQueen

#Baby Quotes

“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
“Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.”
“The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.”
“To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.”
“We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.”

Source : "On the Water". Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.
“Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.”
“We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.”
“Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.”
“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”
“Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.”

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