#slave

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #slave




But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.


Harriet Ann Jacobs


#could #ear #entered #epoch #fifteenth

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


Harriet Ann Jacobs


#born #childhood #had #happy #happy childhood

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.


Harriet Ann Jacobs


#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.


Harriet Ann Jacobs


#fear #girl #licentiousness #reared #slave

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.


Harriet Ann Jacobs


#died #first #first time #i #learned

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.


Harriet Ann Jacobs


#been #before #ever #far #girl

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.


Peter Jennings


#different people #different things #i #means #never

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.


Helen Keller


#ancestors #had #his #king #slave

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.


Fanny Kemble


#allowed #between #brutes #class #common

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.


Bertrand Russell


#because #confer #hated #hideous #impose