William Wells Brown

“I am a fugitive slave; I am a stranger in this land, and have no home upon this soil.”

“Slavery has never been represented; slavery never can be represented.”

“People don't follow titles, they follow courage.”

“I was a slave, born and brought up a slave, I am not ashamed to say that I was a slave.”

“No day dawns for the slave, nor is it looked for. For the slave, it is all night.”

“The slave is a human being, and is possessed of all the feelings and emotions of any other human being.”

“If I could have the choice of my own complexion, I would be a black man.”

“The last thing that I would have my fellow-countrymen be, is to be barren of a principle of freedom.”

“We should not only be abolitionists, but we should be reformers.”

“My escape from slavery was a thrilling event in my life.”

“We must not only preach, but we must practice what we preach.”

“The colored man is the only man in this country who is not responsible for his own ignorance.”