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Slave Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the…
- It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its…
- To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as…
- John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun.…
- You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
- Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
- E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for…
- I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
- Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
- What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
- Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
- I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
- Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
- Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them,…
- I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased…
- The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the…
- In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains.…
More Slave Quotes
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!… — Charles Baudelaire
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller. — Steven Adler
- The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. — Buffalo Bill
- Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce
- It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves… — James Bovard