Jacqueline Carey Quotes

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.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

Death is better than slavery.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

[Describing slavery:] ... a cruel war against human nature itself.

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

All people are enslaved by something.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.