History Quote by N.K. Jemisin

“ When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn…

— N. K. Jemisin

“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

“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should…

— Fredrika Bremer

“I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force…

— Anthony Ryan

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.”

— Lalita Tedemy

“This confirmed my suspicions that citizens were treated more like slaves than people.”

— Rebecca Besser

“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but as long…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,”

— George R.R. Martin

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper, worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin