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"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."
"The power to investigate is a great public trust."
"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"
Explore more quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs
"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."
"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."
"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."
"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."
"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."
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