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“Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.”

Long Moments Gone Fields Industry Iron Present Moment Sugar Sheep Threatened Silk Cotton Wool

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.”

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Author:Willie Nelson

“I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.”

People Thinking Groups Fields Slavery Pulling Cotton Plantations

Author:Alex Haley

“Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength.”

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Author:Rosa Parks

“I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.”

Whole Wish Fields Guitar Electric Old Days Cotton Good Old Days Electric Guitar Cotton Fields

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.”

Beautiful Fields Creating Responsible African American Cotton Cotton Fields

Author:Philip Freelon

“Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.”