Lash Quotes

I think that`s the thing that helped me the most growing up... feeling that I didn`t have to lash out at her by doing drugs or whatever.

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain`t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain`t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain`t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother`s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain`t I a woman?

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - `voluntarily` sell - himself every day and hour to the `beast of property.`

Live has come to a point where we`re finally comfortable with being a big rock band and dealing with the absolute change of circumstance we went through during the last five to 10 years, ... We don`t have to lash out against it anymore.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.