Conscience Quote by John Sergeant Wise

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh…

— John Kennedy Toole

“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them…

— Timothy B. Tyson

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Sad as the position of a slave is, my uncle’s hardness of heart added much to the unhappiness of those who had the misfortune…

— Victor Hugo

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall…

— George Washington

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…

— James Baldwin

Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every…

— Roger B. Taney

“Although there was always generosity in the Negro neighborhood, it was indulged on pain of sacrifice. Whatever was given by Black people to other…

— Maya Angelou

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“My mother, without a doubt, occupied the center of our home. Universal respect surrounded her in the entire village. Certainly she had many cares.…

— Lajos Ordass

“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do…

— Epictetus