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“To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.”

Stills Country Shows Lasts Wonderful Brother Pages Slave Our Country Glorious Links Forged Fetters

Author:Giuseppe Garibaldi

“A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist, a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down; it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees. Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.”

Writing Soul Hands Light Today Earth Poor Grace Brother Praying Slave Pity Knees My Brother Breeze Fragrance Mist Hymns Airy Gallantry

Book:The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

Source: The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

“My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.”

Men Children Father House Poor Compassion Brother Sick Slave Charity Treated Servant Belonging Tenderness

Book:The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

Source: The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

“If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.”

Ifs Giving Hands Political Force Brother Blessing Slave Monsters Organized Over You Camps Cynicism Cowardly Your Brother Executioners Great Political

Book:Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

“Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.”

Should Brother Slave Ashamed

Book:The life and writings of Frederick Douglass

Source: The life and writings of Frederick Douglass

“One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what terms - but, for a large section of the old slave plantation. He established himself - sisters and brothers, cousins, etc. on fifty- and sixty-acre plots.”

Knows Facts Stories Literature Term Brother Slave Our Family Fifty Etc Plot Grandfather Sixty Sections Brothers And Sisters Cousin Acres Plantations

Author:Ella Baker