“You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.” IfsKnowsWorldShouldBelieveChildrenFacesLife IsDiesChristEnemyFireHeardDyingSweetFoolGunShotsCrossesSlaveryRoundsDearIsraelChainsVainBridgesThrownPatriotNaziHonoredMartyrMosesPharaohs Author:Ronald Reagan
“For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.” MenYearsMadeRealSoulCharacterLightValuesHoursMemoriesSinVisionPrinciplesHeardHabitMarkSlaveryCaughtInterviewsSpokesRoutineDestroyingWiserSublimeCaught UpPenniesDoubtedDreary Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.” MadeProblemWantedNamesSpeakLanguageTeachHeardTaughtSlaveryBlindIslamDumbDeafMuhammadTrue ReligionElijahElijah MuhammadArabic Language Author:Muhammad Ali
“We've always had the blame-America crowd. We've always had the hate-America crowd. But we've now had at least two generations of education where this has been indoctrinated into the young skulls full of mush of young people. They've heard how horrible America was back in the days of slavery. They've heard how horrible America treated women. They've heard how horrible every minority group was treated. They've heard how mean-spirited the founders were. They've heard all kinds of literal lies.” PeopleKindMeanHas BeensTwoAmericaYoungLyingHateGenerationsHeardGroupsBlameSlaveryCrowdsHorribleTreatedAll KindsMinoritiesFoundersLiteralSkullsSpiritedMean SpiritedMinority Groups Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!” IfsMayWarEnoughDesireStrongPresidentHeardRevolutionBattleLateElectionSlaveryBraveActiveChainsInevitableRepeatsToo LateRetiringRetreatContestsSubmissionBostonAmerican RevolutionVigilantForged Author:Patrick Henry
“I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.” IfsMenWorldWayChildrenDoneHateGirlFightingCitiesTakenFireHeardComfortSlaveryWoundedPalmsWeepingSpears Author:C. S. Lewis
“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.” ShouldMeanMadeSometimesFeltTermInterestHeardGroupsBloodBrotherSlaveryStrangerCuriousMy BrotherGrandmotherMy SisterBrothers And SistersTrue Meaning Book:My Bondage and My Freedom ... Source: My Bondage and My Freedom ...
“Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams come up and say, "Delis, will you 'low Jim walk down the street with me?" My mammy say, "All right, Jim, you be a good boy," and dat de las' time I ever heard her speak, or ever see her. We walks down whar de houses grows close together and pretty soon comes to de slave market. I ain't seed it 'fore, but when marster Williams says, "Git up on de block," I got a funny feelin', and I knows what has happened.” KnowsTogetherHouseSpeakStarsGrowsWalksBoysHappenedHeardStreetsOne DayLowsSlaverySlaveRoundsCome UpSeedsBlockFridayUnluckyGood BoyLucky Star Author:James Green
“The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.” CountryEarthMotherCommonStepsPrinciplesSawsHeardIndependenceInstitutionsSlaveryLipsOppressionHypocrisyJustifySooner Or LaterDeclarationDestinedUnnaturalDeclaration Of IndependenceReproachSyllablesInconsistencyInsincerityMother CountryStep Mother Author:John Quincy Adams
“And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?” MenWellsLooksChildrenMotherJesusWomenGriefHeardArmsBearsSlaveryAfrican AmericanBlack PeopleCriedStrong WomenLook At MeBlack WomenBlack HistoryThirteenLashesBarnsWomen StrengthPloughingWhiplashMud Puddles Author:Sojourner Truth
“And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?” ChildrenMotherJesusGriefHeardSlaveryCriedThirteenMud Puddles Author:Sojourner Truth
“Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago...that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy.” PeopleYearsLongTwoGuyWhiteHeardDyingYears AgoSlaveryAddEducatedLong AgoOld Lady Author:Louis C. K.
“My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.” FirstsMayCoursesHeardCollegeHeroSlaveryHearingRecollectionMy HeroCollege DaysAnti Slavery Book:Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American Source: Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American