Fence Quote by Frederick Douglass

“Most so-called success in the world is slavery.”

— Bryant McGill

“Fences and borders make prisoners of us all.”

— Raymond C. Nolan

“A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before he can…

— George MacDonald

“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but no one…

— Colson Whitehead

“A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave…

— Glen Chambers

“The seam in between is fenceless.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Slavery is an element of the human heart...to our ruin.”

— Klaus Kinski

“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

“Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

— Thomas Jefferson

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

— Anonymous