"Death is better than slavery."

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Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.96, Cambridge University Press

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#Slavery Quotes

“It was quite nice to get an opportunity to introduce on the second album something a bit fresh for us. For the rest of the world, perhaps it's not, because guitar is quite ubiquitous, but for us it's exciting to just have guitar on the record.”
“It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.”
“I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~”
“The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad faith or simply mistakes in intelligence, I can't say for sure. But I can say it shows the problem of putting too much faith in intelligence systems without debating them in public.”
“All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.”
“I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.”
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”

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