Quote by Mary Boykin Chesnut

“There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...”

— Frank Herbert

“Doesn’t civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Slavery, like energy, does not disappear; it only changes from one form into another.”

— C.B. Smith

“There are human tempers, bland, glowing, and genial, within whose influence it is as good for the poor in spirit to live, as it…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.”

— Henry Drummond

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

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“That was progress, right there. Except no one would ever know how hard I was working to keep my temper under control, because the…

— Cat Clarke

“This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.”

— Herman Melville

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.”

— Carter G. Woodson

“Slavery is an element of the human heart...to our ruin.”

— Klaus Kinski

“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”

— Susanna Clarke