Birthright Quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs Download Open image ““It is a sad feeling to be afraid of one's native country.”” — Harriet Ann Jacobs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Birthright Fear Patriotism Slavery-in-the-united-states
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“the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we’re interested in them’.” — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
“Fear? Back then, I didn't even realize what that new feeling was. Later, when it overwhelmed me and almost pulled me under, I understood.… — Annemarie Schwarzenbach Copy Share Image
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“This place does not feel like my country. It feels like countries I have read about where things are very bad. It feels, in… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“I think it’s a very brave thing to do. To start a new life in a new country.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest symptom of… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored people. 'My… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow. — David Simon Copy Share Image
Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all that men, and all… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
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Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth,… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
