Book Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

— Daniel O'Connell

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know…

— George Eliot

“The Dying Man" in memoriam W.B. Yeats 1. His words I heard a dying man Say to his gathered kin, “My soul’s hung out…

— Theodore Roethke

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

— Stokely Carmichael

“The existence of Slavery in its most cruel form among them, has a tendency to brutalize the humane and finer feelings of their nature.…

— Solomon Northup

“There may be humane masters, as there certainly are inhuman ones—there may be slaves well-clothed, well-fed, and happy, as there surely are those half-clad,…

— Solomon Northup

Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable…

— Richard Jefferies

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let…

— George Horace Lorimer

“The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all…

— Bertrand Russell

We are all dead men.

— Anonymous

“A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

— Henry Clarke Wright