William Wells Brown Quotes

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• This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have…
• I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its…
• 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…
• The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
• All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance…
• I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
• Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
• When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something…
• People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

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