Mother Quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts, and is…

— Harriet Jacobs

“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother in his…

— Frederick Douglass

“- A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in her arms.…

— Johann Christoph Blumhardt

“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own, whose range…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and to fill…

— Frederick Douglass

“The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast is naught…

— Ed McDonald

“Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they…

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

“She looked over the bins of tinselly junk and felt despair, trying to find one single thing that wouldn't fall apart before you got…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“their base ingratitude to my poor old grandmother. She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age. She had been the…

— Frederick Douglass

She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly,…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

“...now that I am a mother, I understand what Mother's Day is about: it's about looking through our lives and recognizing the act of…

— Shauna Niequist