Famous quotes containing the words black and/or slaves:
“... the black woman can never forget—however lukewarm the party may to-day appear—that it was a Republican president who struck the manacles from her own wrists and gave the possibilities of manhood to her helpless little ones; and to her mind the Democratic Negro is a traitor and a time-server.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)