Storm Clouds Rolling In Quotes

“History is the story of people’s lives. History reflects the consequences of their choice and actions – both good and bad. History is what has given you the world you live in today – both good and bad.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“she needed the quiet solitude found when the rest of the world was still asleep.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“People believe easily when it doesn’t cause them any discomfort. It’s when it hurts to believe that believing means something.”
― Ginny Dye, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

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― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“continue”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“entrance of the elegant”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“stultify”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“Our president said, and I quote, ‘As to slavery, it must be content with what it has. The voice of the civilized world is against it; it is opposed to its growth or extension. Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purposes of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, and they always will be, beaten.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“It’s only when they own your mind that they really own you, boy. They never owned your daddy. And they’ll never own me. I’m not a slave, boy. I’m a human being. I just happen to live in slavery.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“Kanawha Canal was a marvel to her. It had first extended seven miles to afford safe passage around the Richmond Falls. Packet boats now ran daily trips”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“Read the Bible yourself and then ask God to show you the truth.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“what we should think, and”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“It was many hours later before Moses was able to take Rose”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“You can’t spend all your days lookin’ backward, and you can’t spend all your days lookin’ forward. It’s today that counts, Rose.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“He had never met anyone like Carrie. He loved her animation and the fire of passion that lit her eyes when she felt intensely about something. Not only was she beautiful, she was intelligent and not embarrassed to show her feelings.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“People believe what they want to believe. They also believe what people in leadership tell them.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

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― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“That is the Bregdan Principle… Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life. It takes every person’s story to create history. Your life will help determine the course of history. You may think you don’t have much of an impact. You do. Every action you take will reflect in someone else’s life. Someone else’s decisions. Someone else’s future. Both good and bad.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“People are easily deceived—their good and kindly hearts believe it all implicitly, without ever remembering the rule about hearing both sides before we form an opinion.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“the twenty-five hundred acres that comprised Cromwell Plantation. She loved the land passionately. Carrie knew all its moods—all of its secrets and hidden places.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“There are times in the writing of history when we must use words we personally abhor.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“You can’t do people’s thinkin’ and feelin’ for dem, Rose. Some folks you ain’t neber gonna figure out—you just got to accept them where they be. Dere ain’t no way to get inside a person’s head and figure out what makes them be the way they be. You just got to accept them.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“You gots to live as hard as you can where you be. You gots to look deep inside and find out all the thin’s you got to give the world. Then you got to give it. You can’t spend all your days lookin’ backward, and you can’t spend all your days lookin’ forward. It’s today that counts, Rose. Yous got to bloom where you be planted. God’s got you planted here for now.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life. It takes every person’s story to create history. Your life will help determine the course of history. You may think you don’t have much of an impact. You do. Every action you take will reflect in someone else’s life. Someone else’s decisions. Someone else’s future. Both good and bad.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“The federal government will have become their enemy...” Thomas echoed in a disbelieving voice. “I fear there is no turning back from the”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“People don’t like to be pushed into a corner. When they are, they lose sight of what they are fighting about. They simply fight to get out of the corner.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“fighting one fear after another.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person’s heart”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“A life built on others being denied freedom is not a life I would want. I don’t stand with the ranks of the abolitionists, but neither can I support the institution of slavery.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861

“Those who fight the purposes of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, and they always will be, beaten.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Storm Clouds Rolling In: 1860-1861