Free people Quote by Augustine

“For some reason, I believed that I had above all else an obligation to protect everyone-- my teachers, my family-- from the knowledge of…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“I had once been naïve enough to believe that all would be well if you lived by the rules. Good things happened to good…

— J. Nozipo Maraire

“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...”

— John Geddes

“Sad as the position of a slave is, my uncle’s hardness of heart added much to the unhappiness of those who had the misfortune…

— Victor Hugo

“I could not help weeping with him - not over my own fate which, however clearly laid out, was just as sad as his,…

— Jean-Marie Deguignet

“All those people who rejected me gave me a head-start on freedom, because the fear and obedience we are all taught, well, those things…

— Ariel Gore

“They looked at me and asked me to be merciful; they did not command, they begged ... asking for the pity that lay dormant…

— Baroness Orczy

“You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest of the…

— Elizabeth Noble

“To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is…

— Nancy B. Brewer

“I must say that I have always felt that, in the deepest sense, we are all brothers. Class distinctions have never meant anything to…

— Christopher Isherwood

“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.”

— Colson Whitehead

“The voice told me that it was my father who was to blame. He was responsible for this moment, this business of me dejected,…

— Daphne du Maurier