Books Quote by Brandi L. Bates

“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

— Juan Williams

“There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.”

— Carl Sagan

“A man is worked upon by what he works on,” Frederick Douglass once said.”

— Ryan Holiday

“If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren’t they taught to read the Bible for themselves?”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Just listen to Frederick Douglass, a nineteenth-century slave who taught himself how to read and write, as he expresses his view of how Christian…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart…

— Solomon Northup

“Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“A religious woman is a slave that advocates the slavery.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Find out what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be…

— ADBanyan

“To trust any man is the road to slavery.”

— Evangeline Walton

“The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner…

— Barry Unsworth