William Wells Brown Quotes

I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.

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.

The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.

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.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.