I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
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The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.William Wells Brown
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
The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.
William Wells Brown
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
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
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