86 quotes found
“Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.”
“As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.”
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”
“No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.”
“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.”
“I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”
“Corrupted freemen are the worst slaves.”
“The man who gives me employment which I must have or suffer that man is my master let me call him what I will.”
“They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.”
“They (the blacks) had no right which the white man was bound to respect.”
“Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.”
“How are you going to get revenge against dead people? Dig ’em up and stake ’em through the heart?”“I asked myself that same question, and I think I know the answer. You destroy what they loved, and...”
“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.”
“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control would be persuasive throughout; that the order and quietitude of every day l...”
“Strip by strip the lash carved into Grace's shuddering flesh. My tears were falling by then, heavy drops, joining in the leaf dust with the blood that had begun to trickle from the table. My limbs ...”
“They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days of cruel torments and utter lack of what is needed most to life we spent i...”
“Her husband’s suffering and dangers, and the danger of her child, all blended in her mind, with a confused and stunning sense of the risk she was running, in leaving the only home she had ever know...”
“This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.”“No it isn’t,” I said. “That book wasn’t even written until a century after slavery was abolished.”“Then why the hell are they still compla...”
“I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.”
“The biggest thing the white man takes from us ain’t our bodies. He takes our voices, too. He swallows up our yes’s and no’s like biscuits. But one day our yes’s and no’s will be so loud and strong ...”
