American history Quote by Jay Grewal

“A slave ship of the skies.”

— Gucci Mane

“We rode through the night. No food offered, no water provided. They raided town after town until we finally reached the shore. There, we…

— Margeaux Laurent

“They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and womanly.”

— Harriet Jacobs

“War, as father of all things, and king, names few to serve as gods, and of the rest makes these men slaves, those free.”

— Heraclitus

“We were all created to be servants, not slaves.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but no one…

— Colson Whitehead

“When the waters poured into Atlantis, the rich men still screamed for their slaves.”

— Bertolt Brecht

“These poor, plain men, dwellers upon the lonely sands of Hatteras, took their lives in their hands, and, at the most imminent risk crossed…

— Annual Report of the U.S. Life- Saving Service 1885

“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.”

— Philo of Alexandria

“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”

— Maya Angelou

“No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. But nobody wanted to speak on the…

— Colson Whitehead

“Even a slave may rise from the dust, and whet his gaze into a knife, and tell his master, "You will never own me.”

— Greg Keyes