Leave People Quote by Octavia E. Butler

“in an interview Butler has stated that the meaning of the amputation is clear enough: “I couldn’t really let her come all the way…

— Octavia E. Butler

“She is a slave, with no way home.”

— Heather Demetrios

“Despite her light skin, despite the obviousness that more of her ancestors had owned slaves than had been them, how could she lose? We're…

— Tiphanie Yanique

“no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on,”

— Edwin H Friedman

“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother in his…

— Frederick Douglass

“Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.”

— Carter G. Woodson

“freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

— Anonymous

“About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.”

— Christina Stead

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Slavery never died, it just changed form.”

— Steven Magee

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

— C.B. Smith

“He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.”

— Paulo Coelho