Savannah Buckley
Slavery
Where did the slave come from?
Here are some very well know runaway slaves.
Harriet Tubman quotes...
"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom, i was a stranger in a strange land."
"You'll be free or die!"
"I grew up like a neglected weed- ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
Frederick Douglass quotes...
"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery."
"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without a last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."
"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
Sojourner Truth quotes...
"It is hard for the old slave spirit to die. But die it must."
"Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit."
"I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star."
"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other."