Top 30 Harriet Jacobs Quotes
#1. She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts, and is capable of feeling a mother's agonies.
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#2. The scripture says "oppression makes it even a wise man mad" ...
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#3. No, I did not think of him. When a man is hunted like a wild beast he forgets there is a God, a heaven. He forgets every thing in his struggle to get beyond the reach of the bloodhounds.
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#4. The brightest skies are always foreshadowed by dark clouds
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#5. Why allow the tendrils of the heart to twine around objects which may at any moment be wrenched away
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#6. There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.
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#7. Yet few slaveholders seem to be aware of the widespread moral ruin occasioned by this wicked system. Their talk is of blighted cotton crops
not of the blight on their children's souls.
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#8. Would that I had more ability! But my heart is so full, and my pen is so weak!
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#9. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they
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#10. Satan's church is here below; Up to God's free church I hope to go.
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#11. I had never realized what grand things air and sunlight are till I had been deprived of them.
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#12. The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.
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#13. God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins.
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#14. They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and womanly.
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#15. Take courage, Willie; brighter days will come by and by.
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#16. He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery ... No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We don't die but once.
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#18. They had never felt slavery; and, when it was too late, they were convinced of its reality. When
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#19. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings.
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#20. Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men.
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#21. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. I
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#23. There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment
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#24. Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once; and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has called it "the atmosphere of hell"; and I believe it is so.
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#25. As I was about to open the street door, Sally laid her hand on my shoulder, and said, "Linda, is you gwine all
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#26. My Master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
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#27. It seemed as if I were born to bring sorrow on all who befriended me, and that was the bitterest drop in the bitter cup of my life.
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#28. My mistress had taught me the precepts of God's Word: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.
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#29. Do you know that I have a right to do as I like with you, - that I can kill you, if I please?" "You
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#30. I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live;
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