Quotes by William Wells Brown - Page 1

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Courage
People
Titles
Follow
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I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Hunting
Liberty
Names
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The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Battle
Civilization
Rights
Struggle
Entirely
Last
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Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Claims
Divided
Numbers
Responsibility
Severity
Tyrants
Despot
Number
Increases
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The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Civilization
Rights
Struggle
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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.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Chance
Men
Black
Black And White
Demand
Heels
High Heels
White
Man People Black
Rise
Neck
Efforts
Off
Him
Shall
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This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Men
Country
Discovery
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Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Country
Growing
Sugar
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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.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Change
Boys
Committed
Mother
Rights
Acts
Boy
Brought
Cruel
Dr
William
Mine
Ordered
Something Else
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This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'Cradle of Liberty,' they have rocked the child to death.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Home
Children
Land
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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 world.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
America
Fall
Long
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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.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Brother
Chains
Constitution
Heaven
Justice
Liberty
Limbs
Ruins
Slavery
Torn
Wind
Build
Beheld
Seen
Brothers
Captive
Destroy
Let Us
Placed
Scattered
Temple
Winds
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Justice
Race
Taken
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