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Elizabeth Keckley quotes: Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

Elizabeth Keckley quotes: I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

Elizabeth Keckley quotes: When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln

When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!

Elizabeth Keckley quotes: Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

Elizabeth Keckley quotes: None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, Do not magnify the imperfections of others.

None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, Do not magnify the imperfections of others.

Elizabeth Keckley quotes: Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it

Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it