Eskinder Nega Quotes

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

The real world is horrible.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

… the unhappy Peasant cannot survive in his humble shelter; today pigswill is his only nourishment; what was once lavished on swine is now shared between man and beast. The People ask only for bread; they are even willing to pay for it with the sweat of their brows: at least let them eat it without watering it with tears.

Today's world is very cruel.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?