I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the…

All along the eastern shore

— MGMT

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

— Toussaint Louverture

I grew up on the Eastern Shore with the Chesapeake Bay as my backyard - name a job out on the water, and I've…

— Ralph Northam

Growing up on the Eastern Shore, I've learned how important aquaculture and marine life are to sustaining Virginia's economy and way of life.

— Ralph Northam

I learned a lot of lessons growing up on my family's farm on the Eastern Shore: the dignity of hard work, the importance of…

— Ralph Northam

Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort…

— Robert Moses

Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of…

— Lee Smith

I often think of setting as an important character in my story. 'Dark Powers' takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore community rich…

— Ruth Glick

“Look again at those people around you. For most, debt is simply a part of life. But it doesn’t have to be for you.…

— J.L. Collins

“The country therefore was not “born free” but born slave and free, servant and master, tenant and landlord, poor and rich.”

— Howard Zinn

A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In…

— Thomas Sowell

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

— Elizabeth Keckley

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never…

— Frank E. Peretti

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

— Margaret Sanger