Able Quote by Anonymous

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

— Harriet Tubman

“freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

— Anonymous

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

— Victor Hugo

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

— Frederick Douglass

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living…

— Patrick Henry

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

— Abraham Lincoln

I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.

— Mary Roach

From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not…

— Booker T. Washington

Admitting the truth would have meant exposing us all. We spent our first decade in the country learning the ways of the new land…

— Alex Tizon

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

— Robert Hunter

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

— Seneca the Younger

To have slaved so many years for nothing!

— Juvenal