--- title: "1 American slavery Quotes By Frances Harper" description: "1 American slavery quotes by Frances Harper. Plus more from Frances Harper and more American slavery sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/frances-harper-23401_american-slavery_it-is-said-that-the-negro-is-ignorant-bu_2227742.jpg" --- > [It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/it-is-said-that-the-negro-is-ignorant-but-why-is-he-ignorant-it-comes/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/frances-harper-23401_american-slavery_it-is-said-that-the-negro-is-ignorant-bu_2227742.jpg) ## Other authors on American slavery - [Abraham Lincoln 19 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-slavery/abraham-lincoln/) ## More by Frances Harper > [We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/we-are-all-bound-up-together-in-one-great-bundle-of-humanity-and/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/i-belong-to-this-race-and-when-it-is-down-i-belong-to-a-down-race/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/i-find-by-close-observation-that-the-mothers-are-the-levers-which/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/if-we-have-had-no-past-it-is-well-for-us-to-look-hopefully-to-the/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/i-like-the-character-of-moses-he-is-the-first-disunionist-we-read-of/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/but-two-things-are-wanting-in-american-civilization-a-keener-and/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/every-mother-should-endeavor-to-be-a-true-artist/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/i-envy-neither-the-heart-nor-the-head-of-any-legislator-who-has-been/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/i-do-not-think-the-mere-extension-of-the-ballot-a-panacea-for-all-the/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/no-man-can-feel-the-iron-which-enters-another-man-s-soul/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/my-hands-were-weak-but-i-reached-them-out-to-feebler-ones-than-mine/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/true-politeness-is-to-social-life-what-oil-is-to-machinery-a-thing-to/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/the-true-aim-of-female-education-should-be-not-a-development-of-one/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/a-room-to-myself-is-a-luxury-that-i-do-not-always-enjoy/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) > [The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-harper/the-respect-that-is-only-bought-by-gold-is-not-worth-much/) [Frances Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-harper/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-slavery/frances-harper/#itemlist", "name": "1 American slavery Quotes By Frances Harper", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is said that the Negro is ignorant. 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