Slave Quote by Frederick Douglass Download Open image “It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.” — Frederick Douglass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Slave Teach Unlawful Unsafe Wells
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Two hundred years ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach them to read. Why do… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know,… — M. K. Asante Copy Share Image
“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim… — Elizabeth Nunez Copy Share Image
“If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren’t they taught to read the Bible for themselves?” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“A treacherous President stood in the way; and it can be easily seen how reluctant good men might be to admit an apostasy which… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going to have… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.” — Lalita Tedemy Copy Share Image
“Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a… — Epictetus Epictetus Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
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