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“I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.”

Ifs May Dream Literature Race Leader Slavery

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.”

Literature Interest Principles Influence Letters Slavery Profession Curse Southern Honorable Clinging Libel Christendom Republicanism Travesty

Book:Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery

Source: Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery

“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.”

Needs Years Reason Body Light Lasts Literature Term Five Four Hundred Slavery Trade Slave Contact Justify Slave Trade

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”

Two Literature Parent Born Method Slavery Educational Tyranny Selfishness Tyrants

Book:Letters to friends, family, and editors

Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors

“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”

Long Father Literature Long Time Slavery Patterns Long Time Ago Boyfriend

Author:Anais Nin

“Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.”

Looks Lasts Literature Clear One Thing Fashion Slavery Right Thing Racist Bigotry Integration Comes And Goes Suffrage

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.”

World Mind Humans Long Literature Progress Atheism Slavery Ministers Human Mind Reincarnation Monarchs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”

“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”

Wells Literature Politics Economy Slavery Slave Expected Liberalism

Book:The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass

Source: The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass

“You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.”

Men Trying May Form Suffering Girl Literature Imagination Imagine Genius Slavery Being A Girl

Author:George Eliot

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”

Literature Speak Freedom Slavery Censorship Freedom Of Speech Be A Slave

Book:Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes

Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes

“Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.”

Reality Literature Left Progress Slavery Terror Reactions Submission Robbing

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays