"Always it gave me a pang that my……" — Harriet Ann Jacobs
"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."
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29 Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until…
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself…
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble…
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table,…
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk…
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When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor,…
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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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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life…
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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