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"You create your world with your thoughts."
"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."
"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"
"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."
"Television has tremendous power over our lives."
Explore more quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs
"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."
"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."
"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."
"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."
"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import."
"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."
"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."
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