1,063 Quotes About Slavery

I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.

This is not our fight,' the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

The best time to do anything, get drunk, surf, run, take a walk, gamble, make love, get high, watch a movie, read a book, is on a Monday, when everyone else is at work, as their depression will heighten your celebration, of not being them.

Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she’s a glass doll that might break at any minute. She hasn’t been a child since the day she was whipped into muteness. Anxiety might strangle her sometimes, but she’s not some baby needing to be coddled.

And I suppose I might have grown up better, might have become a proper house girl or even taken Aunt Aggie's place as House Negro. I might have been a good girl if it had been in the cards. But all of that was dashed to hell two days after I was born, when the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg.

If you keep your head down to your success, you are humble and if you keep your head down to someone’s success, you are a slave

I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.