Behinds Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

— Frederick Douglass

“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind…

— Susie Larson

Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.

— Lupita Nyong'o

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.”

— Colson Whitehead

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

— Jack LaLanne

“Modern Slavery is the lack of emancipation from Mental Slavery.”

— Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

— Afeni Shakur

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

— Bob Marley

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be.…

— Colson Whitehead