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Death is better than slavery.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
I had never realized what grand things air and sunlight are till I had been deprived of them.
— Harriet Jacobs
Why allow the tendrils of the heart to twine around objects which may at any moment be wrenched away
— Harriet Jacobs
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men.
— Harriet Jacobs
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.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.
— Harriet Jacobs
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live;
— Harriet Jacobs
Take courage, Willie; brighter days will come by and by.
— Harriet Jacobs
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and womanly.
— Harriet Jacobs
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
I resolved not to be conquered again.
— Harriet Jacobs
The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
My Master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
— Harriet Jacobs
God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins.
— Harriet Jacobs
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
The scripture says "oppression makes it even a wise man mad" ...
— Harriet Jacobs
to render me miserable. He
— Harriet Jacobs
They had never felt slavery; and, when it was too late, they were convinced of its reality. When
— Harriet Jacobs
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment
— Harriet Jacobs
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings.
— Harriet Jacobs
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. I
— Harriet Jacobs
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
It seemed as if I were born to bring sorrow on all who befriended me, and that was the bitterest drop in the bitter cup of my life.
— Harriet Jacobs
Satan's church is here below; Up to God's free church I hope to go.
— Harriet Jacobs
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
As I was about to open the street door, Sally laid her hand on my shoulder, and said, "Linda, is you gwine all
— Harriet Jacobs
Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.
— Harriet Jacobs
Do you know that I have a right to do as I like with you, - that I can kill you, if I please?" "You
— Harriet Jacobs
The brightest skies are always foreshadowed by dark clouds
— Harriet Jacobs