Of my ancestry I know almost nothing. In the slave quarters, and even later, I heard whispered conversations among the coloured people of the tortures which the slaves, including, no doubt, my ancestors on my mother’s side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship while being conveyed from Africa to America.
Ancestors Quotes
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.
Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are.
They that on glorious ancestors enlarge – Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
To forget one’s ancestor’s is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root.
Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. (Ezekiel 17:2)
One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.
