Suzanne Collins Quotes
A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.
Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. Scholastic Press, 2009, p. 21.
His prediction would come true 72 years later. He was a slave trader and a strong supporter of the institution. See {624060}. However unlike most slave supporting Southerners, he came from one of the richest families of New England. His own brother Moses Brown was an ardent abolitionist and John was able to see the arguments and forces lined up against slavery. He saw that abolitionists as the trouble makers because they were trying to change the status quo. Having much experience with Southerners and selling them many slaves, he realized early how the South was totally dependent on slavery for its economic and social way of life. Few Americans had that broad a perspective.
Roosevelt was preparing to suggest government regulation of large corporations and trusts. See Theodore Roosevelt {42023}
Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author. She is known as the author of The New York Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games.
