26 result(s) for Quotes About Black Slaves Who Were Freed.
"Slavery is theft—hundreds of thousands of men and women robbed of their lives, robbed of their liberty, robbed of their labor."
"Freedom is not given, it is taken."
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"The man who is a slave knows how to be a free man when he is free."
"The destination is worth the journey."
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
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"I did not let my condition define me."
"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
"The only thing worse than being enslaved is being enslaved and not knowing it."
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth."
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
"No one is free when others are oppressed."
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
"It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"The struggle for freedom is a struggle to define ourselves, to affirm our dignity, and to find the many forms of justice that exist."
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"I am my ancestors' wildest dreams."
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
"It is essential that we see the world through the eyes of those who have been disenfranchised."
