Dawn Quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

— Simon Bolivar

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one…

— Victor Hugo

The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of…

— Victoria Woodhull

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that…

— Ani DiFranco

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to…

— James F. Cooper

“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction”

— Simón Bolívar

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the…

— Jane Porter

There's injustices within our system that we inherited from this time, from slavery, and until we confront our past, we're not going to be…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning…

— Samuel Morse

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin