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“I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.”

Men Universe Felt Fire Ready Slavery Burning

Book:My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

Source: My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

“As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.”

Men Should Felt Objects Slavery Unions Slave Destroyed Flags Stains Cattle

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.”

People Knows Kind Has Beens I Can Happens Left Felt Taken Wind Slavery Angry Backgrounds Oppression Know Me Could Have Been

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.”

Heart May War Felt Christ Freedom Slavery Persecution

Author:Pope Francis

“Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people in the North who actually felt we should just let the South be the South. Because the way it is now, it seems like we have this portrait where everybody in Georgia hated Yankees and everybody in the North was enlightened. That wouldn't seem as clear cut as it does now.”

People Way Should Doe War Seems Felt Understanding Clear Cutting Slavery South Hated Civil War Enlightened Portraits Yankees Georgia During The Civil War

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.”

“Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of them, and felt a curious interest in them, I really did not understand what they were to me, or I to them. We were brothers and sisters, but what of that? Why should they be attached to me, or I to them? Brothers and sisters were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers. I heard the words brother and sisters, and knew they must mean something; but slavery had robbed these terms of their true meaning.”

Should Mean Made Sometimes Felt Term Interest Heard Groups Blood Brother Slavery Stranger Curious My Brother Grandmother My Sister Brothers And Sisters True Meaning

Book:My Bondage and My Freedom ...

Source: My Bondage and My Freedom ...

“I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.”

Culture Found Felt Leader Depends Slavery Spots Oppressed Handicaps Charismatic Limelight

Author:Ella Baker

“American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil.”

Source: The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series

“The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.”

Evil Felt Greater Slavery Merit Remedy Magnitude Devising

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.”