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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents…
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro…
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about…
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays…
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me,…
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When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the…
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away
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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
— Aeschylus
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Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
— Heinrich Heine
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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
— Heinrich Heine
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We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to…
— Orlando Figes
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To me death is better than the defensive.
— Alexander Suvorov
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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than…
— George Bernard Shaw
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For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.
— Theodora
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Death is better than slavery.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
— Imran Khan
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Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright…
— Walter Scott
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Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am…
— Daniel Keyes
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This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.
— Stephen King
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