Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
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This is emphatically an age of discoveries but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.William Wells Brown
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
William Wells Brown
All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.
William Wells Brown
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
William Wells Brown
I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
William Wells Brown
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