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Letter "W" » William Wells Brown Quotes
«People don't follow titles, they follow courage.»
«All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.»
«The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the worl»
«The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.»
«Fling out the Anti-Slavery flag;Forever let it beThe emblem to a holy cause,The banner of the free.And never from its guardian heightLet it by man be driven,But let it float forever there,Beneath the smiles of heaven.»
«I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.»
«I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.»
«When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights; and I received several very severe whippings for telling people that my name was William, after orders were given to change it. Though young, I was old enough to place a high appreciation upon my name.»
«Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.»
«We, as individuals, are fast losing our reputation for honest dealing. Our nation is losing its character. The loss of a firm national character, or the degredation of a nation's honour, is the inevitable prelude to her destruction.»
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