Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or women:
“Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)