Children Quote by Harriet Jacobs

“the scripture says "oppression makes it even a wise man mad"...”

— harriet jacobs

“My mistress had taught me the precepts of God’s Word: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” “Whatsoever ye would that men should do…

— Harriet Jacobs

“These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.”

— Harriet Jacobs

“It seemed as if I were born to bring sorrow on all who befriended me, and that was the bitterest drop in the bitter…

— Harriet Jacobs

“He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery...No, I will not stay. Let…

— Harriet Jacobs

“I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men…

— Harriet Jacobs

“What does he know of the half-starved wretches toiling from dawn till dark on the plantations? of mothers shrieking for their children, torn from…

— Harriet 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

“Take courage, Willie; brighter days will come by and by.”

— Harriet Jacobs

“Why allow the tendrils of the heart to twine around objects which may at any moment be wrenched away”

— Harriet Jacobs

“No, I did not think of him. When a man is hunted like a wild beast he forgets there is a God, a heaven.…

— Harriet Jacobs

“Benny was not there to welcome me. He had been left at a good place to learn a trade, and for several months every…

— Harriet Jacobs