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"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
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"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
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"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."
"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."
"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."
"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."
"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."
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