“Are doctors of divinity blind or are they hypocrites?”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“I passed nearly a year in the family of Isaac and Amy Post, practical believers in the Christian doctrine of human brotherhood. They measured a man's worth by his character, not by his complexion.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored people. 'My friends,' said he, 'it affords me great happiness to have an opportunity of speaking to you again. For two years I have been striving to do something for the colored people of my own parish; but nothing is yet accomplished. I have not even preached a sermon to them. Try to live according to the word of God, my friends. Your skin is darker than mine; but God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins." This was strange doctrine from a southern pulpit. It was very offensive to slaveholders.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
“It's so beautiful when people express themselves
Some say, hide your emotions
I say, show yourself in motion.”
“There I sat, in that great city, guiltless of crime, yet not daring to worship God in any of the churches. I heard the bells ringing for afternoon service, and, with contemptuous sarcasm, I said, "Will the preachers take for their text, 'Proclaim liberty to the captive, and the opening of prison doors to them that are bound'? or will they preach from the text, 'Do unto others as ye would they should do unto you'?”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.”
Source: Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.”
“To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.”
Source: Un conto ancora aperto
“I knew the law would decide that I was his property, and would probably still give his daughter a claim to my children; but I regarded such laws as the regulations of robbers, who had no rights that I was bound to respect.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself