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“The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.” quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs — Download Open image

“The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.”

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice…

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“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and…

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“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

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“I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest symptom of prejudice against color. Indeed, I entirely forgot it, till the time came for us to return to America… We had a tedious winter passage, and from the distance spectres seemed to rise up on the shores…

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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper…

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For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my…

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“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored people. 'My friends,' said he, 'it affords me great happiness to have an opportunity of speaking to you again. For two years I have been striving to do something for the colored people of my own parish; but…

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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

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“Are doctors of divinity blind or are they hypocrites?”

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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

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There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

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I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe…

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Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful…

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It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail…

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The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.

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Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not born to die; A thriftless prodigal of smiles and tears— No hope I needed, and I knew no fears. But sleep, though sweet, is only sleep—and waking, I waked to sleep no more; at once…

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As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter…

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