"Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?"

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Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.45, Feminist Press at CUNY

Frances Harper

#Long Quotes #Thrones Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“The Earth forgives the previous year every year.”
“A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the wordsâ€”or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbolsâ€”spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.”
“there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.”
“It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.”

Source : Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman (2010). “Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation”, p.86, Seal Press
“I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant”
“English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it”
“A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.”
“Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.”

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