harriet jacobs

“the scripture says "oppression makes it even a wise man mad"...”

— harriet jacobs

“My mistress had taught me the precepts of God’s Word: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” “Whatsoever ye would that men…

— Harriet Jacobs

“These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.”

— Harriet Jacobs

“It seemed as if I were born to bring sorrow on all who befriended me, and that was the bitterest drop in…

— Harriet Jacobs

“He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery...No, I will not…

— Harriet Jacobs

“I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which…

— Harriet Jacobs

“What does he know of the half-starved wretches toiling from dawn till dark on the plantations? of mothers shrieking for their children,…

— Harriet Jacobs

“She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts,…

— Harriet Jacobs

“Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard…

— Harriet Jacobs

“Take courage, Willie; brighter days will come by and by.”

— Harriet Jacobs

“Why allow the tendrils of the heart to twine around objects which may at any moment be wrenched away”

— Harriet Jacobs

“No, I did not think of him. When a man is hunted like a wild beast he forgets there is a God,…

— Harriet Jacobs

“Benny was not there to welcome me. He had been left at a good place to learn a trade, and for several…

— Harriet Jacobs

“Mrs. Flint, like many southern women, was totally deficient in energy. She had not strength to superintend her household affairs; but her…

— Harriet Jacobs

“I resolved not to be conquered again.”

— Harriet Jacobs

“Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once; and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has…

— Harriet Jacobs

“Would that I had more ability! But my heart is so full, and my pen is so weak!”

— Harriet Jacobs

“Satan's church is here below; Up to God's free church I hope to go.”

— Harriet Jacobs

“God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins.”

— Harriet Jacobs

“The brightest skies are always foreshadowed by dark clouds”

— Harriet Jacobs

“They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and…

— Harriet Jacobs