06 7 / 2012

"My country again! Mr. Wilson, you have a country; but what country have I, or any one like me, born of slave mothers? What laws are there for us? We don’t make them,-we don’t consent to them,-we have nothing to do with them; all they do for us is to crush us and keep us down."

George Harris of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in response to a white man asking him why he wants his freedom so fervently
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