slavery Quotes

“They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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“I had as well be killed running as die standing.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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“I have often wished myself a beast, or a bird—anything, rather than a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

topic:freedom slavery

“The last and most successful one was that of tarring his fence all around; after which, if a slave was caught with any tar upon his person, it was deemed sufficient proof that he had either been into the garden, or had tried to get in.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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“I am far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves; but no slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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