Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken,… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some… — William Wells Brown Copy Share
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. — William Wells Brown Copy Share
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so.… — William Wells Brown Copy Share
The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as… — William Wells Brown Copy Share
Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part… — William Wells Brown Copy Share
The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved… — William Wells Brown Copy Share
All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a… — William Wells Brown Copy Share
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. — William Wells Brown Copy Share
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on… — William Wells Brown Copy Share
I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name. — William Wells Brown Copy Share
