Take Their Feet Off Our Necks Quotes

#1. I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

Sarah Grimke

#2. And if i
if i ever let love go
because the hatred and the whisperings
become a phantom dictate i o-
bey in lieu of impulse and realities
(the blossoming flamingos of my
wild mimosa trees)
then let love freeze me
out.
(from i must become a menace to my enemies)

June Jordan

#3. Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Philip K. Dick

#4. There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

J. Paul Getty

#5. I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#6. Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#7. Africa's not a color - it's a place.

Trevor Noah

#8. I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.

Mavis Staples

#9. When I was growing up I noticed something. Every time I wanted to do something and I feared that I will fail, I always ended up failing. In life, whatever you fear always happen to you.

A.B. Joseph

#10. Never, ever, work for bad people

George Lois

#11. Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.

Joseph Addison